COMM 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Employee Retention, Performance Appraisal, Liquid Oxygen
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Strategic purpose: helps achieve business objectives by linking employees" behavior with the organization"s goals, measures each employees" performance to identify specific organization expectations, enables organization to take corrective action (training, incentives or discipline), can only achieve this strategic purpose if measurements are truly aligned with the organization"s goals and when feedback and goals are communicated to employees, administrative purpose, how organizations use the system to provide information for day to day decisions about salary, benefits, and recognition problems, aid dm of employee retention, termination for poor performance, hiring and layoffs. Info of performance appraisal can have huge impact on the future of individual employees: developmental purpose, serves as a basis for developing employees" knowledge and skills, employees can become more valuable when they receive and discuss performance feedback, makes them aware of their strengths and weaknesses to improve, uncover root of problems, identify steps for improvement, sensitive topic sometimes, but important.
