SECTION 8.15 THE BENEFITS OF PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Last Update: 2/04

Performance Evaluation benefits not just the employee, but also the supervisor, the agency, and the overall enterprise, as well as the public.

Performance evaluation benefits the employee by:

· Translating job duties into specific performance expectations (goals/strategies) and standards.

· Prioritizing goals to be accomplished during the evaluation period.

· Helping him or her focus on the job and how it contributes to the overall goals of the unit.

· Providing meaningful job performance feedback.

· Providing concrete suggestions for how job performance can be improved.

· Laying out a plan for future career development.

· Recognizing work achievements.

· Providing a formal opportunity for the employee to inform the supervisor about barriers to work accomplishment, to ask for clarification of duties and roles, to identify resources and tools needed to help improve performance, and to highlight work achievements and the strengths he or she brings to the job.

Performance evaluation benefits the supervisor by:

· Clearly communicating job performance expectations and standards to all parties involved so there is no basis for confusion or disagreement later on.

· Serving as formal documentation of numerous personnel actions such as training needs, performance improvement needs, recognition of goal accomplishment and exceptional performance, pay increase, job redesign, and discipline.

· Providing a means of either encouraging the employee to continue good work or to change/improve in areas that don’t meet expectations.

· Providing an opportunity in time to paint a picture of past performance and lay a roadmap for future planning and development.

· Reinforcing the employee’s accountability for job performance.

Performance evaluation benefits the agency by:

· Telling employees the overall direction the agency is going.

· Engaging everyone in the organization, from top to bottom, in helping the agency successfully fulfill its mission.

· Helping to define and clarify roles – who does what.

· Helping determine when program and policy changes need to be made.

· Helping plan for the future.

Performance evaluation benefits the enterprise (all of the Executive Branch) by:

· Aligning the work goals/strategies of the individual with the mission and strategic goals of the agency and the enterprise to deliver the services needed by citizens.

· Providing a standard method of giving employees feedback about their job performance.