Blog 05 -Performance Management VS Performance Appraisal

Performance Management VS Performance Appraisal

Performance management is considered as a process. It consist with below cycle.

 

Performance management is a continuous, comprehensive and flexible approach to manage teams, organizations, and individuals, that involves the maximum possible dialogues between the parties involved

 

In every organization there is a need to understand the abilities of the employees to perform and grow. Performance appraisal acts as a tool to check the development opportunities for the employees. It is a systematic evaluation of the work performed by the employees.

To cope with the challengers in the business environment, companies are practicing new and effective methods.

In performance appraisal system, employees are subjected to rating once a year and it was mostly implemented on top down basis.

The appraisals were largely discredited because they concentrated mostly on an employee’s errors and inabilities.

It narrowly focused on effect on the overall vision or goal of the organization.

To cope with the current challengers, organizations have shifted their focus to performance management from performance appraisal.

Performance management is a far broader term, because it is an integrated approach that aims to build successful organizations by gaining high performance terms and improving individual performances. In performance management the top level supervisors act as a mentors or coaches. It is more flexible and casual method to evaluate the staff performances.

It can customize for each individual employees actual work rather than evaluating the criteria of job description.

Performance management facilitate real time monitoring and talking corrective actions which helps to better employee output compare to the conventional performance appraisal system.

Also it reduces the stress because it frequently take reviews.

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