...Write a paper describing how effective performance appraisals can increase employee performance. This paper should include sections on the strategic advantages of performance appraisals, Potential forms of bias within the appraisal system, As well as how performance appraisals can contribute to the achievement of strategic objectives. “How effective performance appraisals can increase employee performance” “Performance appraisals can enhance employee performance as well as advance the mission and goals of an organization. There are many advantages of performance appraisals if they are applied fairly, consistently and objectively. Performance appraisals not applied fairly can be counterproductive and even destructive to an organization. Performance appraisals can significantly improve the efficiency of an organization when used to monitor and influence progress toward strategic objectives. Advantages of Performance Appraisals Performance appraisals can increase employee performance by holding both the supervisors and employees accountable to the mission, goals and objectives of the organization. Employee job descriptions are developed based on the expectations of the organization, which derive from the mission, goals and objectives. Employees are expected to carry out responsibilities, which are designed to help meet specified objectives. The job of supervisors is to keep employees focused on the mission and goals of the organization...
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...Task Objective/Measurement Results Comments Ranking Typing 96% accuracy 90% You have a high level of accuracy in your typing skills. I would like for you to try and get even closer to the 96% accuracy. I would suggest proofreading your documents before submitting. This can help you raise that bar. 3 Complete within 48 hours of submission Within 24 hours It is great that you are able to submit the documents before the deadlines. I would suggest that you take a few more minutes proofreading to make sure that there are no typing errors. 4 Filing 98% accuracy 82% It is very important to file with accuracy. Files need to be located quickly when needed. You have room for improvement in this area. I recommend organizing your files prior to filing and it might make it a little easier. 2 Complete by end of the day By end of each week Filing is very important to our organization. It is important that you meet this deadline of filing by the end of the day. It is very important that our employees are able to retrieve files when needed. Currently, they have not been able to do so because your deadline is missed. We will revisit this issue in 30 for improvements. 1 Answer phones Answer within 3 rings Within 2 rings You are doing extremely well with your timeliness in answering the phone. I appreciate your attention to speedy service. 4 Screens calls Forwards all calls All calls should not be forwarded. There are some calls that are forwarded to staff that you have the ability...
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...Public Speaking Public speaking is an art. Like art, it’s the product of human reasons in the community. Public Speaking is a work that came from our skills and imagination. To be good at our skill we need to undergo trainings and exercising. You need to exercise your skill in public speaking. Just like bird, it doesn’t fly not unless it is being taught how to fly. Performing needs preparation. Preparations include different parts that make up your speech. You need to know what the purpose in delivering your speech is. Know your main objective to make everything clear. Also make sure that your idea fits the interest of your audiences. Your message depends in your audience. In writing your speech, you need to have a plan. Organize your ideas and make sure you’re ideas go well with your topic. Accept and renew ideas that can help enhance your message. Reject ideas that is out of the boundary of your speech. It would be nice if you use simple words so that your audiences can easily understand you. What’s significant in telling is that you’re audience can get what you want to tell them. Try to use words that are easy to understand. Lastly is delivering your speech. Eye-to-eye contact is really necessary. Make sure that you’re conversation to your audience is good. It’s like you are talking and your audience is the one who will agree to you. You should let them know that you are talking to them. Your voice is one of the special things needed in delivering your speech. You need...
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...miners Joe Brotz Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release BCOM/275 10/1/12 Heather Rideout Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release Knowing your audience is extremely important for any company to have the ability to communicate materials or information to a group, organization, or the public. The ability to know your audience becomes even more important when a company has to deal with a disaster, outcome, and the aftermath of it. A good example of this is the disaster for the Chilean copper miners in South America. In a Chilean copper mine a disastrous collapse of one of the shafts left 33 miners trapped 310 meters below the surface. This disaster made knowing and understanding their audience extremely important to the mine owners. The audience’s for the company to report to at this time were made up of news correspondence, the victim’s families, and the media. The way this company dealt with this disaster and their different audiences would in the end define how their audience and the world would see them. Their turnaround to report and keep the audience informed went a long way in telling how the Chilean mining company will be viewed for a long time into the future. Not only would the company representative have to keep the prestige of the mining company in one piece, they would have to issue precise and straightforward information that would not always be in the best interest of the company. When a disaster to the extent of...
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...Bachelor2 Literary Analysis of Riders to the Sea The chosen work for this literary analysis is Riders to the Sea, by J.M. Synge (1903). This piece is written as a classical drama. This form of writing is written with direction for setting creation and stage direction for characters included as its form is to be set into action. What is so delightful about this type of writing is that when reading, your imagination is taken to the scene enfolding before you. The characters need not speak every word to portray their emotion to you. Their subtle movements and changes in set symbolically convey visual meaning. After reading the play, it is just as interesting to see it performed. You will want to see if the director of the play has picked up on the subtleties that the playwright has included that have already captured your own mind or emphasized symbolism that you did not absorb. There are several portions of this play that stood out to me as saying more than what most would glean important. The first is a soliloquy made by the two daughters concerning the death of Michael. They are clearly worried how the impact of the news of Michael’s death will impact their mother. They are worried most about her and not of their own loss of their brother. This leads to dramatic irony, as now the audience knows more than the protagonist about what is the sisters believe has happened. The dramatic irony is further proven when the daughters inspect the stitching and fabric of...
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... direction, and purpose of their performances. T.J. Miller did not adhere to a strict structural script within his performance. His performance was impromptu and minimally scripted. Therefore, a strict structure did not exist. Instead, his performance had a topical organization—jumping from idea to idea, carefully accommodating the audience’s reactions. Due to the abrupt topical switches, he had little transitional sentences, but I do not believe this negatively impacted the performance. His initial contact with the audience was dry, but eventually connected with the audience. Miller began with an introduction of himself and his background, which served as a bridge to relate with the audience and establish his credibility or ethos. In addition, he interacted with audience members by asking them questions and using their answers as jokes to further establish his ethos. There was no specific objective in his comedy other than the overarching goal to entertain. His speeches and monologues were varied and covered many topics from school to sex and drugs. Therefore, an explicit thesis did not exist. However, there were many elements attributing to the purpose of his performance. First, he implemented a rhetorical genre to guide his performance’s content and style. He began with a speech of introduction to establish rapport and familiarity with the audience. Miller then moved to the speech of enrichment for the primary content of his performance—comedy. Miller seemed to be familiar...
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...descriptions. In doing the analysis, you will need to gather information about the job, eg by interviewing employees, observing performance of certain tasks, asking employees to fill out questionnaires and worksheets, and collecting information about a job from other sources such as related units of competency. Whatever sources you use to get basic information on what the job entails, the analysis should end up with written results that can be reviewed by the incumbent, or other employees who know the job. During the review, duties, competencies, knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics of the job can be added, deleted or modified. Job analysis is designed to provide a reliable method of quickly and effectively identifying critical competencies (ie knowledge, skills and abilities) and establishing the qualifications for a job or role. The step-by-step process below will assist you to complete a job analysis using the template provided. |Process |Explanation | |Step 1. Understand the job |Start by developing a complete understanding of the position. This is the foundation on which training (and | |including duties and tasks |other human resources processes) is based. The basis of a job is the performance of specific duties and tasks. | | | ...
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...I am currently unemployed and have never been in healthcare. So, I can only elaborate on my last job. My last job was at Savannah River Site of four years. There is several methods of risk management and quality management programs used to avoid injuries. At Savannah River Site, Safety is a livelihood. The management wants to ensure you leave work in the same health or better. To ensure this one of the programs implemented is the Behavior Based Safety (BBS) observation. BBS allows an employee to observe another employee while he or she performs their job. The BBS observer will look for the correct way to perform the task and the wrong way to perform the task. This observance is to take the evaluation and see if there is a behavior the employee uses to perform a task that is different than what the task requires him or her to do. For example, most people when they walk up stairs take one step at a time, while some may take two. But, at Savannah River Site (SRS), they require you to take one step at a time and to use the handrail to avoid slips trips and falls. So, if a task requires an employee to perform it one way, he or she may perform it another way because it may feel comfortable but may cause injury. So, a BBS observer can catch how one does the task to ensure it is performed correctly without injury and annotate what is done that may cause an injury. This observation does not hurt an employee but is evaluated by management to see if the task required is the...
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...useless and employees will lose interest. Training should include some “hands-on” exercises when possible. “Role play” scenarios work very well for some positions also. Employee motivation is extremely important. Most training programs are established using a five step method. The first step is the Needs and Analysis step. This step identifies whether training is needed, what type training, who needs to be trained and how the training will be performed. There are two primary means to determine the type training required. The first is Task Analysis. Task Analysis is the better way to establish the training for new employees. This allows new employees to be trained to the already set company standard. The second way is Performance Analysis. Performance Analysis evaluates how current employees are performing their duties and allows training to be based on strengthening the weaknesses. The second step of the five step method is Instructional Design. During the instructional design phase the tasks, conditions and standards are established. Determination is also made on how the training will be presented. The third step is Validation. The training is “tested” with a small class to correct any errors that may have...
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...person of an extrovert nature, he was naturally friendly, attended all the customers with a smile on his face and readily responded to all the customers’ queries. He liked his job and was highly willing to provide prompt services to the customers in order to make them fully satisfied. Because of his dedication towards his work and very good performance, his boss was happy with him. The management therefore decided to hire him as a temporary employee for a period of next six month. He was then transferred from the CSD Department and placed in Letter of Credit (L/C) Department. One of the reasons why he was inspired was that a job in a bank is much respected in the society which would also enhance his prestige in the community. At the same time banks makes a handsome payment. Ramesh had full confidence in himself. He was very enthusiastic and was willing to make significant contributions to make each customer he serves satisfied and delighted. He knew that if he continued to perform better, his boss would make sure that he received the perks and incentives. In fact, his boss had told him that he would hire him as a permanent staff if his performance during the trial period was good. The targets of Ramesh for a day were not easy. He had to open 7 letter of credit a day, something he had never done before. His job of opening a letter of credit was a lengthy process, challenging task and a risky job which required precise knowledge of the sophisticated software used by the bank. Just...
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...The process of job analysis helps in identifying the worth of specific job, utilizing the human talent in the best possible manner, eliminating unneeded jobs and setting realistic performance measurement standards. Where to place the employees in order to best utilize their skills and talent? How to determine the need of new employees in the organization? How to eliminate unneeded jobs? How to set realistic performance measurement standards? How to identify the jobs and prepare a plan to fill them? One of the main purposes of conducting job analysis is to prepare job description and job specification which in turn helps to hire the right quality of workforce into the organization (analysis process, 2012). An effective analysis of a particular job helps human resources maintain the right quality of employees, measure their performance on realistic standards, assess their training and development needs and increase their productivity. The first step in the job analysis process is to determine its need and desired and output (personal manager, 11/10). Second step is who will conduct the job analysis: The second most important step in the process of job analysis is to decide who will conduct it and for most companies they prefer having it performed by their own human resource department while other companies tend to hire job analysis consultants. The next step is to decide the way in which job analysis process needs to be conducted and having a planned approach of how to carry the...
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...College athletes are held to a high standard, to act, perform and live like professionals. Why not pay them like professionals to? Sure you don’t have to pay them as much as professional athletes but there are a lot of reasons why student athletes should get paid rather than just the scholarship itself. When fans watch these student athletes play there is a major profit in money that the NCAA gets from the millions of people watching. Also, the students are the one playing the sport; so paying them would seem reasonable. To make it fair there are multiple ways that students could get paid and the NCAA could regulate the amount each student gets paid. Student athletes deserved to be paid in some way because the NCAA gets large amounts of money from fans watching it, it would cut down on players receiving improper benefits, and there are multiple ways that every student athlete could get paid fairly. The NCAA earns too much money from fans watching the sports that they need to pay athletes. March Madness, Bowl Games, and other events in college sports generate millions of dollars that go straight to the NCAA and its universities. According to Michael Wilbon, an ESPN expert, the NCAA has a contract with CBS and Turner Sports that pays them 10.8 billion dollars through 2024 for March Madness alone. That being the tournament in men’s college basketball in March with 64 teams competing on the biggest stage. Wilbon has always stated that he strongly regrets college athletes getting...
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...Brian Bedell Music concert report #4 April 21, 2014 For concert report number 4 we could attend a music concert either on campus or somewhere nearby. The concert I chose to attend was Sentgeorge Studio Recital on April 21, 2014 at 5:30. When I got there they had no handouts unfortunately but I took recordings and got one of the singers names and the name of her song so I could write about it. When it came to this concert I believe the lyrics were very important, without them it would have just been a piano playing. Not that there is anything wrong with just the piano playing but having the words with the piece helped show the emotion or why the piano was all the sudden playing Forte instead of piano. Of all the people who sung tonight I believe all but maybe one was in another language besides English. The song I focused on was in French. When it came to the audience I do not think any of them knew the music unless it was the teacher sitting in the front or other music students. I could not understand any of the words and since there were no handouts I had no copy of the music to go along with. Instead I listened to how the voices changed with the pitch of the piano, at that point you can at least tell when there is high emotion or if the song was very mellow. With the words alone the concert would not have been effective. To me without it I probably would have gotten up and left. As bad as that sounds I think you need both to have an effective song. The music accompanying...
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...and male Pas de Deux dancer was the same person. The dancers used their hands and abdomen to give images of birds (I interpreted it that way). The movements were animating and vibrating. The dance seemed to have flexible dynamics of yoga. The dancers ran, galloped, bended, and twisted on the three levels of space. The speed of the dancer’s movement was steadily consistent, changing the tempo only when the music tempo changed. The two dancers initially had isolated spaces, but in the “Pas de Deux”, they combined their personal spaces to perform a coordinated sequence of movements. At the “Pas de Deux”, the dancers performed high-energy movements such as that of lifting the woman’s body up into the air. And my biggest impression of the performance was the graceful and calm way in which the dancers moved around the stage, which was more than big enough...
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...#1 There are four different types of performances. They are readers theatre, chamber theatre, ethnography, and personal narrative. Each of these possess assets that are interesting to me. Readers theatre is a style of theatre where actors do or do not memorize their lines. The actors use vocal demonstration to tell the story rather than props or sets. It is also known as interpretative theatre because the performer interprets the story in his or her own way and so does the audience. Chamber theatre is similar to readers theatre in that both of them use minimal amounts of props and sets. Instead chamber theatre use the work’s original text and the performer again interprets the work the way that he or she best sees it. Ethnography is a form of performance that conducts research. The performer transform the stage from a place of performance to a place of participatory action. It uses the stage as place for inquiry about one’s own values and views. Personal Narrative is when the the performer uses a personal essay to tell a story. This way the performer knows the story well and can tell it in an interesting and entertaining manner. Although these forms of performance are all interesting and fun, I would prefer to perform a personal narrative. I prefer personal narrative because I would be familiar with the story and could portray it in the best way possible to the audience so they can get the most out of watching my performance. Also, by doing a personal narrative it...
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