...help supervise the employees. Riordan has an extensive employee portfolio management system with files on its employees to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of employees, and allows for reviewing their wide range of activities related to the organizations goals (Portfolio Management, 2013). Three employees were selected to take self-assessments to identify the best ways to manage them. These employees took three assessments labeled, How Satisfied I Am with My Job, What are My Emotional Intelligence Score, and Am I Deliberate Decision Maker assessments. After completion of the assessments an Employee Portfolio was created for each employee. The portfolio is used to make recommendations to help in developing the employees, and their individual characteristics are examined to show how they will benefit the performance of the organization. The three employees selected are Mary Tran, Young-Sook Phin, and Mary Napier. Mary Tran shows a general satisfaction with her job. To increase her job satisfaction to above average, management will need to pursue what exactly is the reason for her decline in performance. The job satisfaction score on the assessment was only average, therefore it is recommended that Mary Tran take the How Are You Feeling Right Now Assessment. This assessment will identify if the employee has job dissatisfaction or, dissatisfaction of life. With this information, management will be able to help in improving job satisfaction and direct Mary...
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...the capability of managing their employees. The company has asked several employees to complete a self-assessment about his or her job satisfaction. These assessments will help management discover the characteristics of their employees as well as determining what characteristic affects Riordan Manufacturing. Self-assessments help management analyzed job satisfaction, emotion and how their employee’s emotions affect him or her when making decision. After completely analyzing the self-assessments, a recommendation will be presented to Riordan Manufacturing to get a better understanding of management and how to motivate their employees. The employees who participate in the assessment are Antoinette Cobbs, Edward Massey, and Dwayne Gwen. The assessment that was issue to the participants is as follow: How satisfied am I with my job? What’s my affect intensity? , [Punctuation: Avoid leaving a space before a comma] Am I deliberate decision maker? , [Punctuation: Avoid leaving a space before a comma] and how [remove the comma unless the following is the last element in a series] are you [Eliminate second person (you, your) in academic documents and avoid addressing the reader directly. Prefer third-person pronouns (he, she, they, it)] feeling [Style suggestion: if "feeling" is used in the sense of "to believe or think," it is a cliché and vague; use "believing" or "thinking"] right now? Based on these assessment management can distinguish the...
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...Effect of Job Stress and Job Satisfaction on Performance: An Empirical Study Rashmi Shahu, S.V. Gole Department of Management Technology RKN Engineering College Nagpur, India (rashmishahu@yahoo.co.uk) (golesv@rknec.edu) Volume 2, Number 3 September 2008, pp. 237-246 Occupational stress is commonly acknowledged to be a critical issue for managers of private manufacturing companies. This study attempts to fill part of this void in literature by examining the relationship between job stress, job satisfaction and performance among 100 managers of private manufacturing firms. The study’s findings suggest that higher stress levels are related to lower performance whereas higher job satisfaction indicates higher performance. The main objective was to see if there was any relationship between job performance, job satisfaction and job stress & to preface model for the same. The research was assessed by using various instruments. Keywords: Job Satisfaction, Job Stress, Job Manufacturing Firms, Occupational Stress Index Performance, Private 1. Introduction 1.1 Job Performance in Relation to Job Satisfaction In the field of Industrial / Organizational psychology, one of the most researched areas is the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance (Judge, Thoresen, Bono, & Patton, 2001). Landy (1989) described this relationship as the “Holy Grail” of Industrial psychology. Research linking job performance with satisfaction and other attitudes has been studied since...
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...of supervising employees. They have asked a small number of workers to complete self-assessments in relation to their job satisfaction. These self-assessments will permit management to find out the personalities of the employees and find out how these characteristics have an effect on Riordan Manufacturing. Self-assessments evaluated job satisfaction, passion, how their feelings influence them, and how they make choices. After a careful examination of the self-assessments, further suggestions will be on hand to support Riordan Manufacturing expand with a better viewpoint on the organization and enthusiasm of their staff. The participants in the Riordan manufacturing self-assessments are Bessie Boyd, Brenda Mitchell, and Juan Hernandez. The following self-assessments were administered to the employees: How Satisfied Am I with My Job?, Am I engaged?, How are you feeling right now?, What’s my affect intensity?, What’s my emotional intelligence score?, Am I a deliberate decision maker? Administration may perhaps classify their strengths and weaknesses and how to manage them centered on the self-assessments of each employee and build a plan on how to rank employees in a locale where each member of staff will feel more connected in their occupation. Bessie Boyd is below average when it came to how satisfied she is with her job, she works well with others, but does not feel confident in the pay range for her job position. She does feel she knows her job well however works...
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...University of Phoenix Material Employee Portfolio Complete one matrix for each employee. Employee name: Karen Jubensky |Self Assessment |Results Summary |Strengths |Weaknesses | |How Satisfied Am I |Very Satisfied |Motivated towards the job and life |General environment affects the | |with My Job? | |in general |perception of daily work | |Am I Engaged? |Yes |Take charge of work, committed and |Avoid office politics | | | |positive outlook | | |How Are You Feeling |Wonderful |Positive attitude, keep focus and |Share my positive outlook more | |Right Now? | |determination |often with peers | |What’s My Affect |Somewhat intentionally intense/38 |Laser sharp focus help getting work|Keep emotions in check in tough | |Intensity? | |done |situations | |What’s My Emotional |45 |Self awareness, empathy, motivation|Non | |Intelligence Score? | ...
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...combines the employees’ motivation, satisfactions, and job performance in an organized and an effective workplace is what a good manager should understand. A manager must create a plan incorporating the employees’ job satisfaction, motivation, and performance. The perception of both managers and employees are ensuring that the viewpoints are incorporated into the plan for optimistic influence. According to Robbins and Judge (2013), “Motivation is the method that accounts for a direction, individual intensify, and persistence of an effort toward a specific goal. Satisfaction is defined as the “fulfillment of a need or want” and performance is defined as “the execution of an action or fulfillment of a clam, promise, or request.” Motivation, satisfaction, and performance are important aspects that a manger must utilize with people and each aspect can be define as a success or failure of the employees or as a team. The manager will be able to increase an employee motivation, satisfaction, and performance, if a manager has a positive influence within his or her span of control. Most manager can influence a variation of tools in increasing and gauging employee motivation, satisfaction, and performance. In order to provide a positive and efficient work-life balance, these are some of the tools a manager can provide such as employee survey, performance evaluations and team building sessions. Compensation is a very important aspect for rewarding increased performance but has...
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...Analysis of Performance Appraisal System of the Daphne Company Based on KPI Yanni Yao 1 & Yingying Li1 1 Management faculties of graduate students, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China Correspondence: Yanni Yao, San Xin North road No.1800 20th floor, Room 5013, Songjiang, Shanghai, China. Tel: 86-150-0017-1162. E-mail: 15956976431@163.com Received: April 28, 2014 doi:10.5430/sass.v1n2p84 Abstract Performance appraisal is an important part of enterprise’s human resource management. It can provide an important basis for the salary adjustments of employees, job promotion and training development. This thesis is starting from the status of analysis of Daphne’s performance appraisal, adopting Key Performance Indictor performance appraisal in human resources management model, to analyze Daphne’s problems of performance appraisal. With the practical situation of the theory of knowledge combined with Daphne, the thesis aim at designing a full set of performance appraisal system. In the process of establishing the system, the first is to introduce the performance appraisal system which is applied to the theoretical overview; Secondly, we describe how to use key performance to analyze Daphne’s performance appraisal system after some introductions of relevant concepts of performance appraisal; Finally, as an example in HR positions, setting Key Performance Indicator's do a more detailed set of indicators sample. Keyword: Performance appraisal, Key Performance Indicators...
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...of a performance management system. Performance measures should fit with the organization’s strategy by supporting its goals and culture. Performance measures should be valid, so they measure all the relevant aspects of performance. These measures should also provide interrater and test-retest reliability, so that appraisals are consistent among raters and over time. Performance measurement systems should be able acceptable to the people who use them or receive feed-back from them. Finally, a performance measure should specifically tell employees what is expected of them and how they can meet those expectations. 2. Describe the major methods for measuring performance and major source of performance information Methods for measuring performance: * Making comparisons: the performance appraisal method may require the rater to compare one individual's performance with that of others. This method involves some form of ranking, in which some employees are best, some are average, and others are worst. The usual technical for making comparisons are simply ranking, forced distribution, and paired comparison. * Rating individuals: instead of focusing on arranging a group of employees from the best to worst, performance measurement can look each employee's performance relative to a uniform set of standards. The measurement may evaluate employees in terms of attributes (characteristics or traits) believes desirable. Or the measurements may identify whether employees have behaved...
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...focuses on the human factors affecting the high performance of faculty members in university. The subjects provided in this chapter helped in obtaining the objectives of the study. Several studies had proven that there was actually an existing problem on the performance of employees in Cavite State University. An employee must be a communicator, a leader, a role model, and a collaborator. Each individual member of a team should understand exactly what their responsibilities and expectations are, and as their supervisor, an employee should work to help them reach those goals. Some people find performance management to be a difficult role to play. Some people in particular have difficulty when it comes to evaluating performance. But when it’s done well, performance management is about partnership and motivation at work. If it’s done from this perspective, there is nothing to be uncomfortable about. When this perspective is shared with your employees and they learn to see it that way, performance management becomes a powerful tool that helps your team to become more successful. (Tschiesche, 2013) Measuring performance is of great importance to an incentive plan because it communicates the importance of established organizational goals. “What gets measured and rewarded gets attention” (Bohlander et al, 2001). In discipline of human resource management, different writers suggest the following indicators for measuring employee performance and they include: quality that can be measured...
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...Addressing Job Dissatisfaction and Turnover by May Hall 12/2007 For More Information on This Paper, Please Visit www.paperwriters.com/aftersale.htm When longstanding employees are faced with business restructuring and internal or operational change, job dissatisfaction and employee turnover can be high. When change initiatives are top-down and focus on directives given to employees, rather than change initiatives developed with employees, job satisfaction can plummet. Existing research suggests, though, that motivating employees after a change initiative has begun, rather than securing employee participation, complicity and motivation to support the period of transition, requires some understanding of the basic factors and common methods used for employee motivation. Evidence suggests that improvement in job satisfaction is directly correlated to improvements in employee performance. Employee satisfaction, though, is a complex issue. A number of different types of human resource management systems have been put into place in an effort to improve employee satisfaction, including shorter workdays, shorter workweeks, and improvements in compensation packages. Some theorists have argued, though, that of all of these efforts, compensation improvements have had the greatest impact on performance outcomes of all of the efforts put in place (Lawler and Worley, 2006). This review of literature assesses the impacts of motivational strategies, especially in the presence...
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...EMPLOYEE ATTITUDES AND JOB SATISFACTION Lise M. Saari and Timothy A. Judge This article identifies three major gaps between HR practice and the scientific research in the area of employee attitudes in general and the most focal employee attitude in particular—job satisfaction: (1) the causes of employee attitudes, (2) the results of positive or negative job satisfaction, and (3) how to measure and influence employee attitudes. Suggestions for practitioners are provided on how to close the gaps in knowledge and for evaluating implemented practices. Future research will likely focus on greater understanding of personal characteristics, such as emotion, in defining job satisfaction and how employee attitudes influence organizational performance. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. “Happy employees are productive employees.” “Happy employees are not productive employees.” We hear these conflicting statements made by HR professionals and managers in organizations. There is confusion and debate among practitioners on the topic of employee attitudes and job satisfaction— even at a time when employees are increasingly important for organizational success and competitiveness. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to provide greater understanding of the research on this topic and give recommendations related to the major practitioner knowledge gaps. As indicated indirectly in a study of HR professionals (Rynes, Colbert, & Brown, 2002), as well as based on our experience, the major...
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...Class 7 Compensating Employees Fairly Three basic principles to make decisions concerning salary * Internal job consistency: compensation must reflect the of a job compared to other jobs wthin the organization, in terms of required qualifications, responsabilities, effort and working conditions * External salary competitiveness: salaries a company offers must be comparable to those offered by its competitors * Employee motivation and mobilization: compensation must be motivating in order to encourage performance and loyalty Manager’s Role: * To understand compensation principles * To possess adequate knowledge of the positions managed * To ensure equity, an important factor in compensation decisions Objectives of compensation * As a major HR tool, compensation aims: * To attract * To motivate * To retain employees Building a compensation Program Legal Context Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Pay Equity Act to correct salary differences caused by systemic discrimination Pay Equity Act to correct salary differences caused by systemic discrimination Labour standards act Labour standards act Labour standards act Labour standards act * Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom Employee A<-> Equal salary for equal or equivalent work <-> employee B * Pay equity Act (for organizations with more...
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...Analysis of the Case The Division of Environmental Assessments is now a very important governmental unit, because its mandate has been switched from environmental impact assessment to assessment of environmental plans of oil and gas developments. Based on the importance of oil and gas, this division is clearly under pressure to meet demands and expectations of clients. For this reason, the leadership as well as team members working with the division must employ new strategies that not only increase their efficiency, but also encourage them to work together as a team. This paper analyses some of the problems facing the Division of Environmental Assessments, as well as some solutions aimed at improving employee experience. Problems There are underlying problems in the case. The problems must be solved if the division is to play a more complete role in assessment of environmental plans of oil and gas developments. One of the clearest problems is poor employee retention. In the history of the division, it is obvious that employee turnover has not been a serious issue. However, there is now an increase in the turnover rate, and the ability of filling vacant positions is becoming increasingly difficult. From the case, it is evident that within the first month of Jane’s leadership as the Manager of Environmental Assessments, the division has lost one top engineer and one junior engineer. The main reason why employees are leaving the division is that they are receiving more attractive...
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...Can HRM Practices Improve Job Satisfaction of Ready Made Garment (RMG) Workers in Bangladesh? An Alternative Solution to Recent Unrest Background of the study Ready Made Garment (RMG) is one of the successful manufacturing sectors with greater contribution to the national economy of Bangladesh. The industry started its journey in late 1970s and enjoyed a rapid rise from 30 enterprises in 1980 increased to more than 5000 in 2014. Average growth rate of this sector was over 20% per over the last two decades. RMG is the main source of export for the last 25 years. This single sector alone earns about 80% of yearly foreign exchange of the country. Its contribution to GDP reaches 13% in fiscal year 2009-2010. This sector employs more than 3 billion people in Bangladesh of whom 90% are women from rural family. Thus this sector is playing a vital role in socioeconomic development of the country. But this sector is struggling with a number of problems. Conflict between owners and workers, labor unrest, shortage of gas and electricity, poor infrastructure, poor port facility, conspiracy of home and abroad are posing a great threat to its survival. In recent time, labor unrest in the RMG sector has been a matter of serious concern. Almost every day electronic and print media cover news of labor unrest in RMG sector in one place or another across the country. Job dissatisfaction have been the prime causes of recent labor unrests across the country. This job dissatisfaction of RMG workers...
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...A Proposal to Study the Performance Appraisal System of 2GO Group Inc. RSH 630 Emilyn L. Protacio, MBA Polytechnic University of the Philippines M. H. Del Pilar Campus, Sta. Mesa, Manila ABSTRACT 2GO Group Inc. is a shipping and supply chain company driven by the vision of providing the nation with the best shipping services. This company is using the Performance Appraisal System to review the performance of the people in the organization within prescribed procedures and timetable. Performance Appraisal has been considered as the most significant and an indispensable tool for an organization, the information it provides is highly useful in making decisions regarding various personnel aspects such as promotion and merit increases. Performance measures also link information gathering and decision making processes which provide a basis for judging the effectiveness of personnel sub-divisions such as recruiting, selection, training and compensation. This research will concentrate on examining the effect of the performance appraisal on an individual as well as on the organizations. The sample size of 50 (employees) shall be chose within the organization. The data to use for the study shall be collected through the help of questionnaire and will be evaluated with the help of statistical tools. The research findings will show a noticeable effect of the performance appraisal on the organization as well as on the Individual. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM All organization faces the problem...
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