A 2006 headline in The Wall Street Journal said it all: The Dreaded Performance Review.
For HR managers, the employee performance appraisal is a minefield. It is one of the most hated aspects of their job. Employees themselves find the experience intimidating and unpleasant. So why do companies conduct employee evaluations?
Until recently, employee performance appraisals (or performance reviews) were perceived far and wide to be a necessary evil. They were deemed the only way to arrive at an informed assessment of a worker's past performance and to guide planning for their compensation and future development.
But then it was realized that the conventional employee performance appraisal was a deeply flawed tool. In the words of HR consultant Susan Heathfield, it is an "old fashioned, paternalistic, top down, autocratic mode of management that treats employees as possessions of the company". Well.
The time was ripe for something to replace appraisals. Enter: Employee performance management.
The Better Way: Employee Performance Management
Rather than taking a critical view of a person's work, employee performance management takes a more positive, pro-active stance. It still involves employee evaluations but conducts them in tandem with a review of the entire organization's goals and performance during a given time period. Then management works with the employee to align his or her future productivity with that of the company in a more holistic manner.
Perhaps the most important innovation has been the development of employee performance review software that makes the whole process easier to manage and more complete.
How Halogen Software Takes The "Dread" Out Of Performance Reviews
By automating employee evaluations, Halogen has greatly improved the jobs and morale of countless managers, not to mention employees.
Eliminating the guesswork and the tons of paperwork that normally complicate employee performance appraisals are just two of the benefits of Halogen Software's Employee Performance and Talent Management Suite.
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