Understanding Employee Performance

Jan 25
22:37

2006

Adam Smith

Adam Smith

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Accurately tracking and reporting employee performance can present a huge problem for even the smallest of companies, not to mention much larger corporations. The value of tracking employee performance is quite apparent. When all is said and done your business needs to be profitable. If employee performance is not closely watched the business will continue to allow underperforming employees to hurt the bottom line. The health of the business depends on understanding and making informed decisions based on employee performance research.

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To this end a few business software technology companies have developed dashboard solutions to ease the burden of tracking and understanding employee performance data. Fittingly this dashboard software solution is commonly referred to as a performance dashboard.

The information displayed by the performance dashboard is based on the leading indicators of performance that your organization has identified. These leading indicators are also thought of as key performance indicators. A key performance indicator serves as a variable that helps quantify the level of performance any given employee is realizing. For instance,Understanding Employee Performance Articles in a sales environment one key performance indicator might be the level of sales dollars a particular representative brings in each month.

Continuing with this example, as management examines the performance dashboard – which displays the key performance indicators and their values for each employee – surely they will want to know which employees are underperforming in terms of the amount of sales dollars they bring in each month. Management will probably weight the key performance indicators as they see fit, then use the information displayed on the performance dashboard to rank the sales representatives from best to worst. In this manner they can objectively examine employee performance across the board and hopefully identify ways to improve the performance of underperforming employees.

The real value of a performance dashboard really lies in being able to bring all relevant information together in one spot and present it in such a way that the information is understandable and can be interpreted accurately. A performance dashboard enhances the decision making process as it relates to employee performance by saving managers valuable time and providing them with equally valuable information so they can make the right decision.

Any business that relies heavily on its employee workforce should seriously consider using a performance dashboard to analyze employee performance. A performance dashboard has proven its worth by helping countless managers get the most out of their employees by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of their workforce. Weaknesses can be fortified once they are recognized but if you are lacking the ability to identify the key performance indicator that weighs in below average across the board then you will have a hard time righting the ship. A performance dashboard helps you determine which key performance indicator is a problem area and will require additional training to boost employee performance.

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