You have been recently hired as a Human Resources Specialist, who has been entrusted with employee training. Your first project is to evaluate the needs for training in order to improve employee engagement with a new, strategically aligned performance appraisal system. The company's existing training methods include long and ambiguous training manuals. Due to the length and complexity of the training manuals, employees are not following the appraisal policies that are outlined in the training manual, both employee and managerial engagement in the appraisal process are low and organizational goals are not being positively impacted.

 

As a Human Resources Specialist with expertise in adult learning, you are asked to an executive summary for leadership to provide an analysis of the impact of employee engagement on organizational performance with recommendations to improve employee engagement.

An executive summary that:

• Examines the impact of employee engagement on organizational performance.
• Summarizes how performance appraisal processes affect employee engagement.
• Designs ways to increase employee engagement with alignment to the following:
• Explains the importance of employee development and responsibility within a continuous and cyclical performance appraisal process.
• Discusses the impact of strategically aligned SMART goals by employees and managers.
• Describes how engagement is improved by ongoing managerial mentoring.
• Provides attribution for credible sources used in the executive summary.