Human Resources 101

Michael Fitzgibbon addresses a couple of common performance-management questions, “How do you decide whether to go down the path of performance management?  At the end of it, we’ll probably have to put a package together anyway, so why bother?“

He suggests a couple of questions you must ask before you can start a performance management program with an employee:

1. Is the employee salvageable? In other words, does the employee want to change (or is the employee able to change)? If the employee cannot, or will not, change to meet the employer’s reasonable expectations, then is it worth embarking on something that you believe, even before you’ve started, is destined to fail? Is that fair to you, the supervisors, employee or the business?
2. Even if the employee is willing and able to change, is this employee one that you want to have in the business 10 years from now? If “no”, query whether you want to invest the time and effort on performance management in these circumstances.

Click link to read: Taking a Walk Down the Performance Management Trail