Monday, 2 April 2012

Performance Management System (PMS)


       In organization, constant achieving missions and objectives are crucial for continual development and improvement in its effectiveness. Same goes to employees. Employees have to achieve target in order to be rewarded, recognized and compensated. This often undergoes a systematic performance management system, PMS. The purpose of designing and implementing a performance management system is to ensure performance happens by design and not by chance.


         A good performance management system able to communicate organisational goals and objectives, reinforce individual accountability for meeting those goals, track individual and organisational performance results from time to time for continuous development and planning. The stages of performance management system include planning, monitoring, developing, reviewing, and rewarding. Planning often engages with goal setting and target planning. Monitoring stage often done by supervisors in guiding or checking the progress of targets. Developing often deal with investment of tangible or intangible resources in making the targets to be achieved. Review has to do with appraisal and critical evaluation from the result of the development done. Lastly is the rewarding system whereby a positive performance will receive positive prizes, whereas negative performance or unachievable target will have to gone through negative reinforcement-stages. http://www.cnn1.co.za/performance_management_stages.htm

          In reviewing or appraising the performance of employees, there are several performance indicators related such as job role, toughness, job analysis and specifications, and so on. Evaluation results are not easy to be rewarded. For positive performances done, reward, recognitions and compensation will be given as a motivation increaser. Usually, the positive reinforcers are related payroll, compensation and benefits, reward and recruitment and staffing units. Anyway, human are operant learners, more benefits might make them work well next time.  

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