Employee Performance Analysis

Employee Performance Analysis

MODUEL 2 CASE

Trident University

MGT 509

November 2014

Employee Performance Analysis

Effective coaching by leaders and managers is an important part of employee development. Development is part of the relationship between a manager and his/her employees. It is a process that should involve coaching and feedback over time. This assignment includes identifying the person who will be the focus of the analysis. The person will be assessed using different development models revealing the person’s willingness and ability to change (Green, 2000). A performance improvement action plan will be created to address and identify actions that would be taken or recommend in order to address the issues.

INTRODUCTION

The person that will be the focus of this analysis during this module is a junior manager that has a leadership role. Unfortunately, this manager doesn’t know how to separate his outside personal relationship with a particular employee who works directly for him. It is a smaller company where many employees have worked in the same position for years so he gets attached to them on a personal level. He gets to know his employees on a personal level, which is fine, but when it comes to the workplace the line between personal and business gets a little fuzzy or non-existent at times. It is clear which employees are favored, letting them come and go as they please. These employees take extended lunches and disappear throughout the day. The leader never takes action with then and is often overlooked. He regularly hangs out with these employees after work; which makes it difficult to see where the line is when at work. He hardly holds these employees accountable and reprimands are non-existent. He tells the employees to work out problems between themselves instead of sitting down and mediating the situation to figure out the real issue to solve it.

This manager has been verbally counselled on several occasions in order to improve...