The document summarizes key findings from an IBM report on the challenges facing employees during COVID-19. There is a disconnect between how employees and HR executives view issues like skills development, emotional support, communication, and growth opportunities. To address this, the report outlines 10 action areas for executives like continuous performance management, investing in leadership skills, and using data-driven insights. It also discusses the importance of helping employees play to their strengths through coaching and transparent goal-setting in a performance management system. 360-degree feedback is presented as a tool to get evaluations from multiple perspectives to aid self-development.
The document summarizes key findings from an IBM report on the challenges facing employees during COVID-19. There is a disconnect between how employees and HR executives view issues like skills development, emotional support, communication, and growth opportunities. To address this, the report outlines 10 action areas for executives like continuous performance management, investing in leadership skills, and using data-driven insights. It also discusses the importance of helping employees play to their strengths through coaching and transparent goal-setting in a performance management system. 360-degree feedback is presented as a tool to get evaluations from multiple perspectives to aid self-development.
The document summarizes key findings from an IBM report on the challenges facing employees during COVID-19. There is a disconnect between how employees and HR executives view issues like skills development, emotional support, communication, and growth opportunities. To address this, the report outlines 10 action areas for executives like continuous performance management, investing in leadership skills, and using data-driven insights. It also discusses the importance of helping employees play to their strengths through coaching and transparent goal-setting in a performance management system. 360-degree feedback is presented as a tool to get evaluations from multiple perspectives to aid self-development.
The document summarizes key findings from an IBM report on the challenges facing employees during COVID-19. There is a disconnect between how employees and HR executives view issues like skills development, emotional support, communication, and growth opportunities. To address this, the report outlines 10 action areas for executives like continuous performance management, investing in leadership skills, and using data-driven insights. It also discusses the importance of helping employees play to their strengths through coaching and transparent goal-setting in a performance management system. 360-degree feedback is presented as a tool to get evaluations from multiple perspectives to aid self-development.
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Session Learning
Performance Management System Session 9
Accelerating the journey to HR 3.0: IBM Report in collaboration with Josh Bersin - Under this report, insights were drawn from 300 Global HR executives of 50 industries in 20 countries. - Crux of the report is how the employers are underestimating the challenges being faced by employees during COVID 19 - The report stated that: 62% employees feel they lack skills, and their employers don’t help in developing them, whereas, 34% HR executives feel they are doing a good job when it comes to upskill their workforce 46% employees feel that their companies support emotional health, whereas 54% claim they do not. 80% of HR executives feel that companies are supportive of the emotional health. 51% employees feel there is a lack of transparency when things are communicated and goals are, 86% HR executives feel they are giving clear directions for the goals and tasks 74% employees agree executives help to grow; 62% employees don’t agree with the same We clearly see a case of gap and understanding between organisation executives and their employees. It is a case of sheer misunderstanding between the two
10 Action Areas for Executives to be executed
Measuring employee performance continuously and transparently to have clear and continuous coaching and mentoring Performance conversation to proactively address the workforce and performance issues Investing in new role of leadership, this required a different set of skills and behaviour, and by the use of analysis predict the leaders Building and applying capabilities in agile and Design Thinking: HR Executives should be equipped to manage agile team, through performance, rewards and appraisals Pay for Performance: To do away with pay for tenure, and use performance to reward and appraise employees Continues building skills in the flow of work Designing intentional experience for employee Modernising HR Technology portfolio Applying Data Dirven Insights to Appraisals and Rewards Re orienting & re skilling HR Business Partner: HR must act as data driven problem solvers and as trusted coaches Sourcing of talent strategically: Have the best hires so that the impact is high in terms of productivity. Performance Management in Pandemic: Becoming your Best Self - Organisation are providing training, but there are some gaps in what is being expected out of those trainings, do away with the same we require a Performance Management System in a continuous and a transparent manner. - Organisation should encourage employee to play on their strengths rather than follow someone else and their path to career building - Doing what you are good at improves the performance at a maximum pace - It is a responsibility of the direct reports, or leaders to make employee self-aware of their own strengths - As a HR you should know what people actually want, and what feedback are they looking forward to - Most of us learn the same things, but how we absorb it over the years and use it well makes the entire difference. This is where the role of a good coach and motivator role comes in to the picture. - Goal understanding and Role understanding are at the centre of the solutions, using continuous coaching and performance conversations
360 Degree Feedback
- A multi rater feedback system, having more than one person to asses you. These include your direct reports, subordinates, external stakeholders like customers. - Usually done by administering a questionnaire - Corporate Examples Maruti: Led to better and more strengthened leadership JK: used in assessment centre to get integrated system framework BHEL: It is seen more as a business initiative rather than an HR initiative GATI Ltd: MD implemented this for a 12-year period, and employees felt positive in knowing how they were perceived - When implemented, the perception of Top Management in the eyes of the employees is improved. - Top Management should be ready to be evaluated through its colleagues and subordinates when the entire feedback session takes place - Focus is primarily on individual, and his/her self-development - It is a competency building tool used to discover potential in an employee and not just an appraisal tool - Feedback serves as the foundation for creating development plans for each individual - Biases during the Performance Feedback conversation is a big one big hurdle that still needs proper trainings in place to do away with