Employee Engagement
If you were the CEO of a company, what would you do to your compensation and benefits plan to make it effective in aligning employee behavior and performance with the needs of the enterprise? Additionally, please read the article in the “Readings and Resources” section above on performance evaluation and share your views – pro and con – on eliminating such reviews.
Use the following resource to assist you with your response for Unit 5.1 DB: Employee Engagement.
Dori Meinert. (2015, April). Is It Time to Put the Performance Review on a PIP? SHRM
This article seeks to make the case that Performance Reviews are dysfunctional at best and often destructive to productivity and morale.
REQUIREMENTS
school human resource management school compensation school Compensation and Benefits school Employee engagement
READINGS AND RESOURCES
CourseSmart Textbook:
Milkovich, George T., Newman, J. M., & Gerhart, B. (2014). Compensation (11th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Chapter 9 – Pay-for-Performance: The Evidence
Chapter 10 – Pay-for-Performance Plans
Chapter 11 – Performance Appraisal
Articles & Websites:
Burton, N. (2012, May). Our hierarchy of needs: Why true freedom is a luxury of the mind. Psychology Today.
This article summarizes one of the most prominent theories of human motivation – Abraham H. Maslow’s “Hierarchy of Needs.”
Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2013, April). Does money really affect motivation? A review of the research. Harvard Business Review.
This scholarly article cites numerous studies on the motivational power of money to engage employees. In a nutshell, intrinsic motivation is much stronger predictor of job performance and satisfaction for most of us.
Oberoi, M., & Rejgarhia, P. (2013, April). What your performance management system needs most. Gallup Business Journal.
This article defines “Performance Management” as a system designed to continuously improve and engage our human assets for competitive business advantage. It includes “rewards and recognition,” but only as one element of a larger human resources management system.
Use the following resource to assist you with your response for Unit 5.1 DB: Employee Engagement.
Dori Meinert. (2015, April). Is It Time to Put the Performance Review on a PIP? SHRM
This article seeks to make the case that Performance Reviews are dysfunctional at best and often destructive to productivity and morale.
Solution Preview
Employee performance review is one of the actions in a company. The performance review outlines how the employees are working towards achieving the goals of the company. Also, a performance review is critical when it comes to promotions and recognizing the best employees. The performance can be reviewed by either using the traditional performance review method or the informal method.
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