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Performance Management

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Performance Management
Cognitive abilities and personality traits are important in improving and measuring
employee’s performance and future prediction on their job activities. Some of the most common
cognitive skills include the ability of one’s brain to remember, read, learn, reason and pay
attention. They take information and process it to make meaningful decisions. On the other hand,
Performance management process involves identifying, measuring employees work progress and
developing the performance of employees on individual levels and aligning their performance
with the set company goals and objectives (Tett, 2011).
Cognitive abilities for a new or current employee can improve their job performance.
Human resource department uses the six basic elements of performance management process;
they include goal alignment, ongoing feedback, direction sharing, coaching, development and
support, rewards and recognition. Personality measurement of employees contributes to
improved job performance in an organization. Positive attitude, respect, and attitude contribute to
job performance. Performance elements described by Gary Dessler in HRM guide develop firms
in various ways. Other scholars have argued that seven elements can be used to measure
employee job performance (Hunter, 2015). For any organization to have a successful employee
job performance analysis, they should take into consideration on their abilities and personality
measures.
Performance evaluation is intend...