Performance Management is widely used to assess how employees are carrying out their roles, with the ultimate aim of contributing to the overall goals of the business or organisation.
The idea being that if all staff are performing to the standard required of their roles, the organisation is more likely to succeed.
About Performance Management
Performance management may have both positive or negative connotations depending on the intention behind its use. From a positive perspective, businesses and organisations may use performance management to encourage employees to ‘raise the bar’ – perhaps by improving the efficiency, processes, speed, knowledge and quality of the work they do.
From a less positive standpoint, managers may use a strategy of placing enormous indirect pressure on individual employees with a view to forcing them to make the decision to leave. By managing performance in a way that is deliberately intended to make an employee feel undervalued and ineffective in their role, some employers believe that workers can be ‘managed out’, but they themselves will remain within the law. But by doing so, the employer may be in breach of employment law having carried out an act of constructive dismissal.
Performance Management Programme
An effective Performance Management programme can help to:
Improve staff motivation by recognising good performance
Help to ensure staff are contributing positively to the organisation
Maintain and improve standards and quality
Promote staff development
Improve staff retention
Identify and resolve poor performance
Implementing such a programme requires expertise in HR law and also psychology, as understanding the factors which motivate and demoralise will help any organisation to develop a team of confident and high performing individuals.
Our Performance Management Expertise
Our Employment Team are highly experienced in advising both employers and employees in regard to performance management matters and constructive dismissals. We have developed an enviable reputation for providing legal excellence and empathetic support for our valued clients.
We understand the emotional impact of uncertainty in relation to unfair performance management and constructive dismissal and will handle your case with the utmost empathy and determination to defend your rights.
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As a full-service law firm, client's benefit from our multi-disciplinary expertise, where we collaborate with solicitors in other practice areas to provide you with expert legal advice and guidance which meets your needs. Our Employment Solicitors regularly liaise with our Corporate & Commercial, Property and Litigation & Dispute Resolution Teams as appropriate.
Our Partnership with Talbot Pierce
Lavelle Partners work with Talbot Pierce Consulting to provide a seamless service in respect of Human Resource Management.
Talbot Pierce are a team of specialist HR professionals who work with us on a range of matters including advice on and delivery of conflict/dispute resolution solutions, best-practice HR strategies, policies and procedures.