Australian Managers Can't Do Employee Performance Management
The Performance Management Institute of Australia conducted a survey of Australian Manager attitudes towards the Performance Management process. Approximately 140 Managers responded from a wide variety of businesses and enterprises.
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (PRWEB) December 17, 2005 -- The Performance Management Institute of Australia conducted a survey of Australian Manager attitudes towards the Performance Management process. Approximately 140 Managers responded from a wide variety of businesses and enterprises.
The Survey found that:
1. Most Performance Management systems in Australia are antiquated.
79.4% are based on filling out paper forms and only 22.8% are capable of producing meaningful reports.
2. Most Australian organisations don't understand what top performance means in relation to their employees.
Performance data is used in only 11.8% of organisations to help identify top performers. Also, only 20.6% of organisations use Performance data for identifying potential successors. Skills and experience may still be the overriding factors in determining staff performance, with little consideration given to past Performance data.
Only 38.2% of businesses use Performance data during the recruitment selection process.
These results appear to debunk the talent shortage myth. Australian organisations are their own worst enemies when it comes to identifying and therefore retaining their top people and on implementing high impact succession plans.
3. Only 26.8% of Australian organisations tie rewards to performance.
Seniority, cronyism and other soft measures are still used by 63.2% of Australian organisations to link rewards to performance.
4. Most Managers don't work towards satisfying client or investor needs.
Managers believe that 75% of Performance Management Objectives are aligned to Business Strategy but only 54.4% of Managers say they are highly conversant with the organisation strategy.
Only 21.1% of Managers say that their objectives are aligned to Investor expectations and only 56.6% to Customer expectations.
This confirms that only half of all Managers really understand the organisation strategy. It might also mean that a large number of organisation strategies are unclear about desired customer or investor outcomes.
There is a clear disconnection between what Managers believe they have to achieve and actually achieving good outcomes for both clients and investors.
5. Poor management training continues to dog Australias line Managers.
Most Managers surveyed do not know how to run the Performance Management process.
About 66.2% saying that they have not had formal training in Performance Management. Over 75% say that they have had no training in managing good or poor performance or dealing with emotional employees.
6. The lack of adequate reporting is causing most Performance Management systems to fail.
Only 33.1% of organisations have real time reporting. In the majority of cases, there is little consequence for Managers who don't execute the Performance Management process and therefore objective setting and periodic reviews simply don't happen.
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