Assessment activity 12

Q:1 What performance and process monitoring activities might be undertaken in a business organization ? Do you consider these procedures to be effective and useful? Explain

Ans: We're used to thinking of ongoing performance management for employees, for example, setting goals, monitoring an employee's achievement of those goals, sharing feedback with the employee, evaluating the employee's performance, rewarding the employee's performance or firing the employee. However, performance management applies to teams and organizations, as well. Organizational performance involves the recurring activities to establish organizational goals, monitor progress toward the goals, and make adjustments to achieve those goals more effectively and efficiently. Those recurring activities are much of what leaders and managers inherently do in their organizations -- some of them do it far better than others. (It's useful to think of organizational change in the context of organizational performance, rather than change for the sake of change, so the topic of Organizational Change will be useful to the reader, as well.)
When seeking to improve the performance of an organization, it's very helpful to regularly conduct assessments of the current performance of the organization. Assessments might be planned, systematic and explicit (these often are the best kinds of assessments) or unplanned and implicit. Well-done assessments typically use tools, such as comprehensive questionnaires, SWOT analyses, diagnostic models (we often use these models without recognizing or referring to them as such), etc., along with comparison of results to various "best practices" or industry standards.

Q: 2 What are the useful deliverables from monitoring the progress of a project?

Ans: Introduction

Managing a project effectively means: thinking before acting, identifying