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Benefits and Areas for Improvement
Question 29: What else do you need in order to be successful in the Performance
Management Program?
Fifty-nine respondents provided 63 different responses that were broken down into 6
categories:
• Supervisor Concerns (20)
• Time Concerns (13)
• Rewards (12)
• No Suggestion (9)
• Miscellaneous (6)
• Eliminate (3)
The respondents for this question expressed supervisors concerns, time concerns, a need
for rewards, no suggestions, and a desire to eliminate the program. Approximately 32%
of responses fell into the Supervisor Concerns category, which includes responses that
regarded a need for supervisor feedback, goal setting, and involvement and training in the
program. Nearly 21% of responses indicated that they had time concerns with the
Performance Management Plan. The category of Rewards includes approximately 19%
of responses and contains those that suggested more benefits and rewards should be
reflected through compensation and a higher level of trust between employees and
supervisors. About 14% of the responses to this question offered no suggestions for
improvement of the Performance Management Plan, and almost 10% fell into the
Miscellaneous category, which includes responses about job security, hiring additional
employees, and participating in outside interests. Nearly 5% of the responses fell into the
Eliminate category, which includes those responses that indicated the program should be
eliminated entirely.
Supervisor Concerns
The Supervisor Concerns category includes responses that stated a need for more
feedback, mandatory supervisor participation, goal setting, supervisor involvement, and
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