HRM2604 Assignment 3 Semester 2 2023

This document contains workings, explanations and solutions to the HRM2604 Assignment 3 Semester 2 2023. For assistance call or us on .....................Rudy has recently started his job as a performance management specialist at EcoBoat, a company that builds small to medium-sized boats in an eco-friendly way. The company is based in KwaZulu-Natal. EcoBoat recently changed its performance management (PM) system. This helped to stabilise a problematic period brought by the previous PM system, which saw many specialist welders and fabricators resigning. The staff who remained showed higher levels of dissatisfaction and burnout. The PM system had several operational issues, which included no alignment between the individual objectives and the company’s vision and mission. Also, managers viewed the previous PM system as an administrative nightmare, resulting in a multitude of problems. As the new performance specialist, Rudy joined a team consisting of a performance manager and two administrative clerks. Rudy has several key roles, namely, to ensure that supervisors link employees' performance to the organisational goals, thereby ensuring that the strategic objectives of EcoBoat are realised for the current performance period. In addition, Rudy's role also helps ensure the company learns and improves from their previous situations and increases responsibility between employees and management. Rudy is also responsible for assisting the performance manager to guide supervisors to provide feedback regarding employee performance. This feedback is used to upskill employees and improve areas where an employee has poorly performed. The performance manager noticed that the new supervisors often rate employees at the midpoint because the supervisors are not familiar with the performance dimensions used to assess employees, thus impacting on performance appraisals. Therefore, the performance manager wants to create training opportunities for the new supervisors at EcoBoat to assist with the evaluation of employees’ performance. 1.1. Determine the two specific outcomes of the poor PM system evident at EcoBoat. Provide evidence from the scenario to support your choice. (6) 1.2. Identify the two operational challenges with execution of the business strategy by means of a PM system that are evident at EcoBoat. Provide evidence from the scenario to support your answer. (6) 1.3. Identify and explain which stages of performance management are evident in the scenario. (15) 1.4. Determine and briefly describe what EcoBoat can do to improve their performance management process. (4) 1.5. Identify and explain training interventions that can be implemented for the new supervisors at EcoBoat. (4) TOTAL: 35 MARKS