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| Title | Labor Management in Agriculture: Cultivating Personnel Productivity - (2nd Ed, 2004) - Chapter 6 |
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| File Information | Key objectives of performance appraisals include: (1) validating selection and other management or cultural practices; (2) helping employees understand and take responsibility for their performance; and (3) making decisions about pay or promotions. Important steps to obtaining useful traditional appraisals include determining the type of data to be collected as well as who will conduct the ap-praisal, establishing a rating philosophy, overcoming typical rating deficiencies, creating a rating instrument, and engag-ing the employee in making decisions on future performance changes. An effective negotiated performance appraisal helps the employee take additional ownership for both continuing effective performance and improving weak areas. Employee goals set through performance appraisals should be difficult but achievable, as goals that are overly ambitious are doomed for failure. Some employees tend to boycott their own progress by setting impossible goals to achieve. Finally, employees want to know what you think of their work. Letting workers know that you have noticed their efforts goes a long way towards having a more motivated workforce. Perhaps the most important contribution of the negotiated approach to performance appraisal is improved communication between supervisor and subordinate, often permitting conversations in sensitive areas that may not have been discussed in the past. |
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Billikopf, Gregorio
Area Farm Advisor emeritus
Labor management in agriculture: employee productivity (employee selection and testing, piece-rate pay design, incentive pay, internal wage structure and quality control); interpersonal mediation (co-worker mediation, supervisor-subordinate mediation, communication, interpersonal negotiation skills, effective listening); and supervisor training (employee discipline, praise, performance appraisal). |
| Publication Date | Jan 2, 2004 |
| Date Added | May 1, 2009 |
| Description | The negotiated approach to performance appraisal yields improved communication between supervisor and subordinate, often permitting conversations in sensitive areas. |
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