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Areas for evaluation

To manage performance effectively and identify potential improvements, Profile looks at how you evaluate your people management activities across the board - not just in relation to learning and development.

The following table gives just a few examples of the areas in which you might evaluate performance:

 Evaluating Performance

Issue

  • Examples areas for measurement

Developing the organisation's vision and purpose

  • How strongly people share the organisation's vision and values
  • Performance measured against Key Performance Indicators

Recruiting people

  • Number and type of vacancies
  • Time/cost per hire
  • Rate of employee turnover
  • Quality of candidates and new recruits

Developing and retaining people

  • Feedback from development activities
  • Longer term evaluation/ROI of development activities
  • Levels of participation in development activities

Rewarding people

  • Competitiveness and appeal of rewards to current and potential staff
  • Effectiveness at motivating staff
  • Link between rewards and incentivising positive behaviours which support business strategy

Engaging and communicating with people

  • Staff loyalty, satisfaction and commitment to the organisation
  • Levels of feedback and response to consultation

Keeping people well

  • Sickness absence (long term/short term)
  • Take up of work-life balance solutions
  • Employee satisfaction and motivation

Evaluating the return

  • Participation/response rate to surveys and consultations
  • Actions resulting from evaluation

Managing diversity

  • Profile of employees and candidates for recruitment
  • Staff turnover and perceptions of equal opportunity

Overall performance

  • Financial: turnover growth, profit, share price
  • Business: market share, relative performance compared with peer organisations, meeting targets
  • Customer: volumes, retention, recommendation, feedback
  • Efficiency: cost reduction, productivity.

 

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