Tracking Performance Evaluations

Your organization has just revamped your whole performance management system-now you need a good tracking system so that the system will be effective. First, ensure that the evaluations have a specific time of year when they will be performed, whether it is on the employee's anniversary or at the beginning of the organization's fiscal year-it doesn't matter as long as there is an established procedure for when all evaluations will be performed.

There are many options for organizing how and when the evaluations will be given to employees. It is probably the most efficient to have them all done at the same time during the year. This may create more work for the manager during that specific time of year, but all the evaluations will be completed without any falling through the cracks.

When a good tracking system is implemented, then the manager will only have to worry about the evaluations on his or her list. Of course, to ensure that all of the performance evaluations are complete, the manager should be able to quickly see all the evaluations within the system. And, each manager should use the same, consistent performance evaluation form with the same categories and rating scale, so all the evaluations within the company are completed in a similar fashion. Making sure that every manager is using the tracking system for their performance evaluations will ensure consistency.

Additionally, when the performance evaluations are tracked through a central system, reports can be generated not only for the manager, but also for the manager's boss, so that he or she knows who is on top of their job duties and who is falling behind. An effective strategy to ensure that managers write and give all their employee evaluations is by not having their pay increases go into effect until they have given all employees their evaluations. This is a great motivator to ensure that all employees receive their evaluations.

It is important to ensure that the evaluations are well-written and accurately affect the employee's performance rather than the manager doing an ad hoc job on the evaluations just to say that they are finished.

Managers using Staff Files® HR software can efficiently fill out and store employee performance evaluations and much more. Go to http://www.employee-performance-evaluation.com to learn how Staff Files can track an employees' professional development with your company and to download a FREE Staff Files demo.

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