The creation and consolidation of a performance-oriented corporate culture are among the most important factors for success. The convincingly demonstrated contingencies between effort and personnel success, performance and recognition are major pillars in determining a company's success " in both external business relationships and in relationships with all staff, including managerial level. With our multimodal performance appraisal system (MPA), we provide an instrument that combines the most important conditions for improving performance: goal setting, appraisal and feedback.
The most important function of performance appraisal is to improve performance by means of motivation and behavioral control. A precondition for this is the accurate and comparative assessment of performance. In many cases it is useful to combine a number of different appraisal sources (e. g. supervisors, self, subordinates, and even customers), thus providing a 360 degree assessment, or '360 feedback', as it is commonly referred to. It is important to choose the most appropriate tool for each individual purpose. And it is essential to appraise the correct aspects (i.e. those that are appropriate to requirements) " competencies, behaviors and results.
S & F Personalpsychologie offers you a multimodal system of performance appraisal for modular application. The system is adapted to specific corporate requirements and is implemented in the company together with an assessor training program. The multimodal performance appraisal system has already proven its outstanding value in a number of different organizations. The evaluation data we have obtained proves a quality of process that cannot be demonstrably attained by any other instrument.
Important target parameters in the development, introduction and application of the multimodal performance appraisal system are transparency and fairness towards all participants. This prevents a defensive reaction by employees, assessors and any other parties who may be involved. Line managers also perceive performance appraisal as an enriching managerial task " instead of being what is often a dreaded chore.
Apart from attaching much importance to the need to conform to company requirements, during the construction phase we also place great emphasis on the unequivocal acceptance of the instrument. Hence, the involvement of all prospective users and target group representatives is a major factor " even in the system development phase.
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