Tuesday, December 13, 2011

People Management: Priorities for 2012 Part I

2012 is upon us, and companies all over the world are setting their goals and priorities for the New Year, if they haven’t already done so. This artcle mentions 10 aspects of employee management that every company should take note of.

Engagement is the first and most major aspect, as employees will be considering leaving their organization if there are not enough opportunities for promotion and training, and career prospects seems bleak. Employees are consistently looking for new growth themselves, and as the company grows, stagnation in their careers and payslips will not be good for morale and management.

A learning management system will help boost employee morale and performance, as employees will be able to apply for courses and training online, efficiently and quickly. Selection and choice of courses will depend on employee performance, and as such as an employee performance appraisal system is very useful to identity employees who have potential and drive to succeed in the company. This creates a cycle of performance, where employees who have gone for courses will be even more motivated to perform and do well for recognition.

Thus, a learning management system, or LMS, will benefit from co-usage of an appraisal management system or a performance management system where outstanding employees can be selected for grooming, settling the first issue of engagement.

This online digitization of employee performance evaluation and learning management will cut back on administrative lapse and red tape, which is the another issue companies have to address in 2012. The article mentions the need to cut back on bureaucracy and resolve issues in “poor performance management, poor training and a lack of investment in workers”.

A performance management system and appraisal management system will help address this problem, as employees’ careers and development can be tracked more easily now. Employee performance evaluation can also be tied to software for payroll, so a good appraisal or evaluation will directly affect payroll and an employee’s payslip. They will have added incentive to perform well. Employers will also now be able to monitor employee performance much more easily, without the previous hassle and difficulty of manual monitoring.

The company benefits from reduced red tape and administrative costs, and the human resource benefits from a much more streamlined workforce that engages them fully and completely. The perfect solution to this New Year’s resolution is in these human resource management systems.

Part II next week looks at the issues involving absence management, and managing older and temporary work staff.

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