Performance management: US China joint venture

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Course: Performance ManagementName: Institution: Introduction It is a fact that a China based company or any other organization that is a US China joint venture whose source of labor mainly comprises Chinese nationals needs careful crafting, development and implementation of proper performance system. The first step that needs to be taken is to develop a system that encourages the automation of processes. It is through this automation of processes that such an organization will be able to improve its HR reporting and analytics. In essence, performance management has everything to do with activities that ensure that organizational goals are being met and consistently being focused on, so that the organizational goals are met effectively and efficiently. In this effect, performance management encompasses focusing in organizational performance, or on the output of a department, an employee, or even policies or processes for building a given product or service (Ducharme, Singh, & Podolsky, 2005). Factoring the Goals, Aims and Objectives of the Organization in Performance Management To ensure the existence of effective performance management in a US-China based organization with its bulk being mostly the Chinese, it is important that there is performance planning so that the goals, aims and objectives of the organization are not only well established, but also well inculcated in the organizational culture and behavior, rank and file. This may portend: ensuring that the goals, aims and objectives of the organization are well communicated through the organization`s tools of communication. Performance Coaching It may also be important to institute performance coaching. Given that the Chinese population is always amenable to the culture of diligence and discipline, this performance coaching may have very little [if at all] to do with supervising whether or not work is being done or orders are being ignored. On the contrary, the same may only have to do with the manager in this organization intervening to issue feedback and to subsequently adjust feedback. Performance Appraisal and Staff Competence in Performance Management To ensure effective performance management in the aforementioned organization, it may be important to carry out proper performance appraisal so that the formal documentation of an individual or a department`s is a tenable feat. The same is to be carried out so that feedback and corrective mechanisms can be put in place and effectively be ratified in the organization. The gravity of this above undertaking is that it is through it that performance problem [the incongruence between the Actual and the Desired Results] can be quantified and a corrective mechanism be put in place to help bridge the gap extant between the Actual and the Desired Results (Shen, 2004). Performance Work Plan It may also be important to factor the importance of a work plan and its relative, the organization`s expectations. Although such an organization has such a work force that is dexterous, diligent and disciplined, it will be important for the organization to plan and set the organization`s expectations in terms of both time and volume. Quality may also be considered herein. Work Supervision Another important facet of performance management is the monitoring of the work that is being performed. This will not so much portend the supervisor wandering in several departments to ensure that work is being done as to have departmental and/ or section heads report to the general manag...