Bsbmgt502b Activity 2

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BSBMGT502B MANAGE PEOPLE ASSIGNMENT Activity 1 Workplace Policies and Procedures a. What are your organisation’s policies and procedures regarding counselling underperforming employees? The term counselling refers to the discussion and investigation of problems which affect an employee’s work performance or behaviour in an effort to discover answers to on-the-job problems. COUNSELLING POLICY 1. Counselling will offer support in ensuring employees reach the required standards of their roles and to be more independent and capable of resolving their own problems. 2. Any employee who is identified by management for counselling will not be disadvantaged in any respect. 3. Conducting counselling discussions is…show more content…
What would be your overall aims when counselling an underperforming employee? Describe the steps you would work through to achieve these objectives. The overall aim when counselling an underperforming employee is to restore job performance to a satisfactory level by identifying the unsatisfactory behaviours, mutually establishing goals for improvement, and seeking agreement from the employee on suitable action to overcome those problems. Counselling will occur either because your staff member approaches you to seek help, or because you approach the staff member due to problems you have noticed in his or her work performance. As soon as you have identified that an employee is under-performing, do not wait for things to go from bad to worse. You need to let that team member know that his or her performance is unsatisfactory and conduct a performance counselling session with them to get them back on track. You need to ensure that you have a formal communication process between a manager and the employee, and that process has to be documented. Below are the five steps for effective performance counselling: 1. Establish a safe and trusting…show more content…
Through effective communication, a supervisor can resolve the majority of her employee’s performance problems. Set up a counseling session where you can reinforce your expectations and go over any performance problems. Inform the team member about their performance. Give the employee all relevant details. Advise the employee in writing of the date and location of the meeting, ensuring it is in a private setting (for example, not in the staff tea room). Put the meeting in both of your diaries/calendars, and ensure the employee knows they can bring a support person of their choice if they would like to. Remember, you want a positive outcome, and they might only need more training or coaching and mentoring to get back on
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