HRM540 WK 2

This was another great week of learning.  

 I was so excited to be able to apply what I learned to my job.

The first area I reviewed was performance evaluations. I realized the importance of a good performance evaluation. As a future HR manager I would like to focus on creating performance evaluations. 

As a Director of Admissions my job is to coach and train admissions reps to enroll and start students into school. We have quotas that each rep must meet. The problem is that we cannot evaluate the reps based on meeting their enrollment quotas. It is against the department of education rules to reward or punish reps for enrolling students into school.

So, the question arises on how to evaluate and compensate an admissions rep. We have a set salary for every new hire and a set pay increase amount. Depending on their hire date, they receive their pay increase in April or October. Their pay increase is not based on their evaluation. It is not fair that one person can produce much more than the next but yet they receive the same pay. Once person can receive an excellent evaluation and the other person can get a just meets, but have the same salary.

If I were the HR manager this would be an area I would research. I would ask other schools how they evaluate their employees. I would also ask other employees how it may have been done at their previous jobs.

Performance evaluations are not as important for the manager but are important for the employee receiving the evaluation. I take the delivery important when reviewing with an employee. Making this an important task can keep the employee engaged.

Employment engagement was the next area we studied. I enjoyed our assignment. I was able to create a survey to analyze how engaged are my employees. I was surprised at some of the results.

Our company is going through a major transformation with our accrediting body. Corporate management is challenged to make a lot of major decisions on the success of our company. Their actions and decisions they make are going to be very vital to having engaged employees.

Engaged employees are your most loyal and valuable employees. They are committed to coming to work. They use less sick time then an employee that is disengaged. When an employee becomes disengaged it can cause the company to loose profit.

As manager, it is very imperative to keep my employees engaged. HR has to be available to assist us with task on employee engagement. They have to keep the companies temperature in check so they can be a profitable company