(855) 4-ESSAYS

Type a new keyword(s) and press Enter to search

Improving Performance Management and Output

 

            
             The report deals with a particular area at Damus Building Solutions-Pt.Lisas where an obstacle has been observed. This report was conducted to find out how improving Performance Management in the organisation would be beneficial. The study was conducted on 20 permanent staff inclusive of managers. Data will be based on a number of researches of both primary and secondary data. (Refer to 3.4). The study enables the researcher to consolidate the opinion and suggestions of staffs and managers with regards to improving the company system for performance. Finally suggestions were drawn along with the findings and suggestions from the analysis of the data collected. .
             1.0 Introduction.
             1.0 Brief history of Damus Building Solutions- Pt.Lisas.
             Damus Building Solutions- Pt.Lisas is located at Caribbean Drive Pt.Lisas. However, the company has various stores located across Trinidad. The company's Managing Director is Mr. Russel Sampath and along with Mr.Derek Mahabir who is the Business Developing Director. Damus Building Solutions is however a division of Damus Roofing Systems and also a distributor for Abel Building Solutions. The company introduces a combination of products and services to assist individuals for their construction purposes. The products presently provided for consumers are penta paints, glidden paints, clay blocks, concrete blocks, windows and doors and accessories. .
             1.1 Background of Study .
             Williams (2005) defines Performance Management as a system for managing employee performance. While many organisation claim that they may have this method implemented it might be most likely for setting targets. However, these same businesses may have "gaps " that allows poor monitoring and managing performance to develop to the point where desperate actions are required. Ensuring that there would be little room for these "gaps " in Damus Building Solutions, this study will place significance on the nature of performance management decisions and as well as the output results from employees by improving those decisions.


Essays Related to Improving Performance Management and Output

1. Benchmarking Techniques and Airport Management

The benefit of benchmarking is that one airport's management team investigates other airports' best practices or that of their own former year's and tries to incorporate those ideas to improve their performance. ... Benchmarking offers potential to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of an airport and hence serves as an important tool for the airport management for decision making (Graham, 2005). ... PFP measures cost performance, productivity of capital employed, performance of commercial activities and overall profitability. ... By using multiple inputs and outputs, DEA ...

  • Word Count: 2404
  • Approx Pages: 10
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

2. Communities of Practice and Knowledge Management

Knowledge management is vital in ensuring that this is achieved for businesses to realize maximum innovativeness and overall improved performance. ... With Communities of Practice, an organization can realize improved performance through the enhanced levels of innovativeness. ... A Review of Communities of Practice and Knowledge Management Knowledge management in organizations has become a vital aspect that helps them realize success. ... With the exchange of ideas and transfer of skills and expertise among personnel, a business can realize enhanced outputs. ... Furthermore, with Communities o...

  • Word Count: 1392
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

3. Organizations -Training and Development

In addition, these enhancements in knowledge and skills will improve performance amongst employees as they become more informed of processes and procedures to complete tasks. ... Training also breeds confidence in both the employee to perform their tasks, and management with the knowledge that less supervision is required. ... This, in turn, leads to consistently high performance and completion of tasks and projects. ... Employee satisfaction will naturally improve from this higher performance, as employees become more comfortable with their role within an organization (Vemic, 2007). ... Produ...

  • Word Count: 786
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Graduate

4. Scientific Management

He saw the inefficiency and waste at his job and decided to dedicate himself to stopping this waste and improve efficiency (Kreitner 2001). ... They would observe and examine workers in the performance of these smaller tasks and attempt to determine the most efficient manner to perform the task. ... Strive for maximum output, in place of restricted output (soldiering). ... Continuously and consistently, what used to be an extra effort worthy of a bonus becomes the new performance norm. ... Pay Incentives Taylor believed that, finding the right challenge for each person and then paying h...

  • Word Count: 2354
  • Approx Pages: 9

5. Redeveloping The Organization To Implement QMS And Improve The Bottom Line

If an organization wants to improve its effectiveness, efficiency, or profitability by implementing a Quality Management System (QMS), it must change or redevelop itself. ... First adopted in Japan and later sweeping the manufacturing industries throughout the world, Deming's Total Quality Management approach changed managerial output, which led to development number two. 2. ... As it has arrived, it has increasingly come bundled with Environmental Management Systems and OSHA management systems. ... There are many techniques and a variety of tools available to improve or change an or...

  • Word Count: 1433
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

6. British Petroleum - Knowledge Management

"Knowledge Management holds all disciplines connected to E&P, from engineering to drilling to task management, with the creation of the best performs." ... The Alliance was involved in the knowledge management's benefits and invited the BP Knowledge Management Team to support them complete this result. ... Strategy and Leadership One of the BP's impressive aspects is the grade to which it has combined tactical work with knowledge, and has learned to effort across structural silos so this knowledge is shared, productivities are overstated and innovation is improved. ... Leadership L...

  • Word Count: 3416
  • Approx Pages: 14
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

7. Management

In the authors part time job at "Boots the Chemist" employees receive performance-related bonus. ... Each employee's performance is monitored every week. ... People need to know their targets what they are doing right and areas, which they need improving on. ... Here employees concern is discussed as well as targets, their performance and areas, which they can improve on. ... L, 1999) "If employees have theory X expectations and managers expect theory Y attitudes the results are delegation and involvement is likely to produce poor quality output and misdirection effort." ...

  • Word Count: 1760
  • Approx Pages: 7
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

8. Behavioral Approaches to Management

Behavioral Approaches to Management Hawthorne's Study and Human relations In 1924, the Western Electric Company commissioned a research program to study individual productivity at the Hawthorne Works of the firm's Chicago plant. The initial "Hawthorne Studies" had a scientific management perspective and sought to determine how economic incentives and the physical conditions of the workplace affected the output of workers. An initial focus was on the level of illumination in the manufacturing facilities; it seemed reasonable to expect that better lighting would improve perform...

  • Word Count: 506
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

9. Management theory

Daft (2000, p.g.47) defined that "Scientific management emphasized scientifically determined changes in management practices as the solution to improving labor productivity." ... Rewards workers on the basis of their performance and shares productivity gains with those responsible for achieving the gains." The comparison and contrast of classical and contemporary management are as below: Although scientific management improved productivity, it is fail to deal with the social context and workers" needs and wants, thus increased the conflict between managers and employees. ... Horizo...

  • Word Count: 1509
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate