As our organization grows, it is important to stay up to date with the industry’s evolving human resources practices to manage our employees effectively. In this project, students will design a preliminary model of a new performance evaluation system that emphasizes our company goals, and draws a focus to our main challenges that staff are facing.

Tasks include:

• Speaking to current employees and management to determine the needs and challenges of our organization for a performance management system.
• Researching performance management options that may suit the needs of our team, focusing on measurability and reliability.
• Establishing a rollout plan that outlines how our organization will transition to using a new performance management system.
• Using a weighted decision matrix to decide on a method based on factors such as efficiency, user-friendliness, measurability, reliability, and cost- effectiveness.

By the end of the project, students should complete the following list of activities (this is basically a retelling of the steps above):

• Conducted research by speaking to company staff to determine needs and challenges of our current performance management system.
• Completed research online to determine options for a new performance management system.
• Created a rollout plan for the new performance management system.
• Compiled a final report with data, research findings, and the rollout plan..

Final deliverables should include:

• A final report outlining research conducted, various performance management options, the decision for the optimal strategy, and a rollout plan including considerations of adopting the new system..
• A 20-minute presentation explaining all findings in the report.

Students will connect directly with us for mentorship throughout the project. We will be able to provide answers to questions such as:

• What are the main challenges we are having with staff?
• What aspects of our current performance management system work well? Which need the most improvement?
• How much money do we have to implement a new performance management system?
• Input on choices, problems or anything else the students might encounter.