Why do managers use PDP for their employees?
- To provide feedback and recognition that helps the employee improve performance and meet the responsibilities and objectives of his/her position.
- To outline plans for the employee's ongoing professional development.
- To reach the overall objective together efficiently.
- It helps manager gain a better understanding of their employee’s and what they want to achieve, they can then work closer with their employees to help them reach their personal goals.
- This leads to the managers being able to improve their ability to motivate their employee’s as they have a better understanding of them.
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Observations:
An observation is the simplest and most obvious way of discussing the needs for the training and development of an employee. Observation normally is through a day to day contact with an employee through a managers or supervisors position. Usually assessing factors such as errors made, capability, improvements, strengths and weaknesses. Observations can also help determine whether or not further training or any training is needed and will be efficient to boost employee’s skills, if lacking. However employees can sometimes feel de-motivated or intimidated by observations, especially if managers are keeping a close eye on them or being too harsh in the eyes of the employee.
Each and everyday at work, I know that I am under observation by either my manager or supervisor, I work in a sales environment and when I first started work I worked very closely with my supervisor who observed my sales ability, and then fed back to my manager at the end of each day, to briefly discuss how I was getting on and how things were going such as my training.
Performance Review:
A performance review is a wide ranging method to establish the training and development needs of an employee. A performance review includes most of tools discussed above, to provide an in-depth and overall analysis of an employees training needs. However it can also be applied to other situations such as in an educational context.
I have recently had a performance review through a one to one interview with my private tutor at school. Here we took time to track my progress throughout the previous year within school relating to my AS Studies and any extra curricular activities. We also discussed my future and what I would like to achieve. I was asked to come up with 3 targets that could be achieved on a short term basis, before leaving school at the end of the year, I had to set dates in which I had to achieve these targets by, we also agreed on another one to one interview halfway through the year to monitor my progress on these targets and other queries. The minutes of this interview can be seen in the appendix.