Managing Employee Performance

Managing Employee Performance

Executive Summary
This assignment on managing employee performance aims to understand the lacuna in the
existing performance appraisal used by Matrix and implement a new one to improve the
performance of the staffs and revenue of the company. In the process the company also
conducted the training need analysis to bridge the gap between actual performance and set
performance of the employees. Further various motivational theories are compared and
contrasted to evaluate how performance appraisal process gets influenced by the motivation of
the staff and the correlation between motivation and ability to perform is also identified. Finally
strategies are identified to improve individual performance at Matrix and reduce negative
reaction to performance appraisal process.

Table of Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................2
Performance Appraisal....................................................................................................................4
Motivational Theories......................................................................................................................5
Maslow‘s Need Hierarchy Theory...............................................................................................5
Herzberg’s Motivation Hygiene Theory:.....................................................................................6
McClellan’s Need Theory:...........................................................................................................7
Vroom’s Expectancy Theory:......................................................................................................8
Relationship between Performance appraisal and employee motivation.....................................9
Correlation between Motivation and ability to perform..............................................................9
Strategies to reduce negative reactions to the performance appraisal process:.........................10
Reference.......................................................................................................................................11