Legal, Safety, and Regulatory Requirements
HCS 341
September 26, 2011

Legal, Safety, and Regulatory Requirements

Human resources administrators want to improve the work environment to enhance employee performance. Regulatory practices to improve the work environment are base on works of scholars who spearheaded the scientific movement. Human resources law has taken center stage in dealing with workplace violations and excessive abuses. There are many challenges to effective performance measurement in how a human resources manager can ensure accurate measurement of a worker performance.

Managers are confronted with five challenges, (1) Rater errors and bias, (2) The influence of liking, (3) Organizational politics, (4) Whether to focus on the individual or the group, (5) Legal issues (Go’mez-Mejia, Balkin, and Cardy, 2010). A rater error is an error in performance appraisal that reflects consistent biases on the part of the rater.

One of the most prominent rater errors is halo error, the tendency to rate similarly across dimensions (Go’mez-Mejia, Balkin, and Cardy, 2010). If an individual does well in one aspect, this can trigger favorable reports on other aspects. The Influence of liking can cause errors in performance appraisals when raters allow their like or dislike of an individual to influence their assessment of that person’s performance (Go’mez-Mejia, Balkin, and Cardy, 2010).

A manager can correlate the performer’s ratings only because they like them but also can mean the raters likes the way the employee performs the job requirements and, or dislike their poor performs on getting the job requirements done on time.

Organizational Politics requires effectiveness and skills when handling conflicts agendas, shifting in the power bases, maintaining relationships while achieving the wanted results from