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Report on Employee Performance and Emotional Intelligence

Category: Business & Management Paper Type: Report Writing Reference: APA Words: 1450

            Employee performance refers to the behavior and performance of workers in the workplace as they perform their assigned tasks. An organization normally sets targets for performance for individual employees and it can be said that an organization deems it beneficial if performance targets are being met by workers. Employee performance is an important factor which directly contributes to organizational performance. At present, organizations face strong competition and are keen on boosting employee performance for enhancing their brand recognition, market reach, and profitability (Motowidlo & Kell, 2012).

          Therefore, quality managers and HR managers have put a special emphasis on methods for gauging performance and conducting sessions of review periodically for monitoring it. With the increment in the overall review of performance, the importance of an employee increases in the eyes of the organization. Normally, in any occupation, employee performance is determined by several parameters which can be specific for both highly complex and simple jobs as well, often correlating with the complicatedness of employment contract, job manual, or job description. Generally, these parameters include error rates, work rate, damaging or costly incidents, client or customer satisfaction, revenue generation, teamwork, attitudes, productivity, initiatives, and dependability etc. There are different agencies of HR consultation which provide an apt evaluation of the performance of employees and many organizations seem to outsource their evaluation of employee performance to them.

          Normally, measurement of employee performance is not a simple task and organizations have to plan it effectively for its good execution. If an organization wishes to assess the levels of performance of workers, the owner requires proper performance administration and planning. On the basis of that discussion, some specific standards have to be set and consistent evaluation of workers on different aspects must be carried out. But carrying out an evaluation of employee performance is not enough, an organization must also implement grooming and mentoring sessions. Workshops are implemented by most of the companies for it. It can be said that the best practice for increasing the input of workers is a reprimand which is followed by the policy of encouragement. It must be remembered that worker performance also relies on the relation that is shared by him with the organization. Thus, it is also important for an organization to groom and motivate a worker for getting better results (Jankingthong & Rurkkhum, 2012).

Models of Employee Performance

            In the practical world, organizations don’t stick to a typical employee performance model. It has been determined that companies alter the performance models according to their requirements. This way, they are able to suit their needs and enhance the performance of workers. However, following is one of the most implemented models in firms for measuring the performance of workers (Hameed & Waheed, 2011).

Practical Employee Performance Model

        The overall performance of employees can be measured with the use of internal model. It can be said that it is necessary to consider the compensation policy and performance of an employee for making sure that the internal model is effectively working. The compensation policy and employee performance are seemingly based on the five questions which are given below and represent the guiding principles as well:

1. What are the measures which are used for evaluating the performance?

2. What are the measures which are used for measuring the overall performance?

3. What are the methods employed for checking the distribution of performance?

4. How is it possible to work with the overall results of performance?

5. What is the relation of compensation policy with an evaluation of performance?

        Actually, the overall evaluation of performance consists and reflects four elements which include the overall experience of working, experience in a specific position, behavior; attitude; or competencies, and individual performance. The overall evaluation of performance is created in such a way that each of these 4 elements has a specific weight in the calculation of the total score of performance. For instance, individual performance in completing different tasks is offered a 30 percent weight; competencies, behavior, and attitude according to the values of the company is also offered 30 percent weight; and working experience along experience in the position both are given 20 percent weight.

        Competencies are simply evaluated against the competency model of organization. Meanwhile, behavior and attitude are measured according to the organizational values. Each worker can obtain 1-5 points for his competency level. Organizational values and competency model can be separated into four sectors: Recognizing the business along with its strategic direction. This also involves analyzing and solving issues which are influencing the financial results and business of the organization. Another part is delivering outcomes which means to be innovative, customer focused, performance oriented, and willing to change the present things. Then comes motivating individuals which means to be capable of inspiring and engaging employees for cultivating networks and relations among them while fostering communication, cooperation, and teamwork. The last one is training people as individuals have to be trained for adapting to changes and coping with the issues or challenges (Schraeder & Jordan, 2011).

Emotional Intelligence and Performance

        Emotional intelligence is actually a set of abilities or skills which refer to just how effective a person is able to handle emotions not only in himself but also in others. It has been identified that both in employee performance, management, and leadership effective handling of emotions might contribute to completing the assigned tasks with more efficiency than before. Employees often encounter issues in their work which need to be sensible and act in such a way that they are not making mistakes. Therefore, it can be said that the relationship between performance and emotional intelligence is positive (Cavazotte, Moreno, & Hickmann, 2012).

EI or emotional intelligence is determined to involve at least 3 skills including naming emotions of a person, or capability of identifying emotions and emotional awareness; the capability of harnessing the emotions and applying them to different tasks like problem solving and thinking; and the ability of managing emotions which involve both regulating the emotions oneself and emotions of others. Actually, there is not an authenticated psychometric scale or test for emotional intelligence as there is for the general intelligence factor. It is argued by many that emotional intelligence is thus not a proper construct but a manner of explaining interpersonal abilities which has many other names (Ramchunder & Martins, 2014).

In spite of this criticism, EI or emotional intelligence has a broad appeal among the public along with many other areas. In the past years, some workers have even integrated tests of emotional intelligence into their interview or application processes, on the concept that a person high in this emotional intelligence would be making a better coworker or a leader. Although some studies have identified a connection between job performance and emotional intelligence, no correlation has been shown by others, and the lack of an authenticated scale makes it quite tough to forecast or predict emotional intelligence of a person on the job.

            It has been identified in studies that employees need to have a strong grip on their emotions as they work because they face various challenges as they work. If they panic and let their emotions decide for them, it would cause them to work inefficiently. It can even result in strong drawbacks and financial loss to the organization. That is why, employees with high emotional intelligence are more diligent and work seamlessly (Jackson, 2014).

References of Employee Performance and Emotional Intelligence

Cavazotte, F., Moreno, V., & Hickmann, M. (2012). Effects of leader intelligence, personality and emotional intelligence on transformational

leadership and managerial performance. The Leadership Quarterly, 23(3), 443-455.

Hameed, A., & Waheed, A. (2011). Employee development and its affect on employee performance a conceptual framework. International journal

of business and social science , 2(11).

Jackson, L. (2014). The work engagement and job performance relationship: Exploring the mediating effect of trait emotional intelligence.

Jankingthong, K., & Rurkkhum, S. (2012). Factors affecting job performance: a review of literature. Silpakorn University Journal of Social

Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, 12(2), 115-127.

Motowidlo, S. J., & Kell, H. J. (2012). Job performance. Handbook of Psychology, 12.

Ramchunder, Y., & Martins, N. (2014). The role of self-efficacy, emotional intelligence and leadership style as attributes of leadership

effectiveness. SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 40(1), 01-11.

Schraeder, M., & Jordan, M. (2011). Managing performance: A practical perspective on managing employee performance. The Journal for

Quality and Participation, 34(2).

 

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