Management Development - Reviews & Appraisals :: Business and Management Studies

Management Development - Reviews & AppraisalsIntroductionManagement development is used so that they the company can motivatetheir staff, so that the performance of their workforce provide bebetter.Therefore it is used to improve the performance of the business sothat their share price increases and they result attract moreshareholders and their sales and profits will be increased, this willalso mean that the shareholders will give paid good dividends.Due to that happening their stakeholders will be showing more residein the business, which means that they will be able to employ staffmore easily so that they will have a wider range of candidates to look at from so they can employee a larger range of highly skilledstaff.Purpose of idea intentsAs it is said that the main problem that arises with an appraisalscheme is the confusion over the objectives that are set.Mainly it can be said that an appraisal scheme is used to developstaff by giving randomness for progression and resour ce planning, aswell as being able to make out and state the weaknesses ofperformance.It helps to provide data that can relate to the allowance that a memberof staff should be paid and the improvements and chances that need tobe made to staff to meet the required standards and improve them forthe future.As well as helping to show whether the staff should havetraining/career planning and if so what they need in relation to itand how the communication can be improved between the manager andmember of staff, especially in relation to general feedback.Methods of Reviewing and appraisal schemesIt has been said that appraisals are the most suitable methods ofreviewing employees for management and supervisory staff. increasingly clerical, secretarial and manual staffs with skilled ortechnical jobs are now also being appraised.There are many different people within a business who may carry out anappraisal the appraisers are some times called raters. Below I haveshown a list of the people w ho may carry out an employees appraisal,with explanation about them ad why they would be chosen -Self-appraisalThis is quite a new idea to the process of development. It is not ahighly used form of reviewing.With self-appraisals, which is pretty self explanatory, the member ofstaff will perform a self-analysis in the traditional appraisalschemes, although there is the involvement of the superior whosedecision officially counts.The ratings that the employee gives themselves maybe changed, but onlyin the light of the workers notes.Peer-appraisalThese are said to be the majority of the time a very reliable method