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Building A Working Paradigm

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:13:02 +0000

Generally, the paradigm is defined as a set of beliefs or basic beliefs which determine a person to act on every day’s life. Paradigm is like a window where someone observes the outside world, where someone explores the world with his perception or kind of world view. Does every employee or even the management in a certain company realize that they had a paradigm? Not necessarily.

Not all companies understand and realize that the paradigm can bring someone to direct his behavior. It is aware that each individual basically has its own mindset, views, insight, and mental model. For example, it could be that the manager has a perception that the employees are irresponsible, lazy, and worthless. Instead of employees considered that they were responsible, hardworking, and high value.

The question is how all the components of a company must have the same paradigm about a job, including its actors. Working paradigm is directing the activities of every individual in the company to achieve its goals and the employee’s goals. Although it is not visible and without realizing its presence, a paradigm is greatly affect on the working environment. Example, in the 70′s, the managers of the American automobile industry had a paradigm which stated that “Our customers are only interested and concerned with the look of a car“. So what happened after the statement appeared?

Assessing The Employees Performance

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:30:20 +0000

Employees performance assessment is an important issue for all entrepreneurs. However, satisfactory performance does not happen automatically, which is only happening by using a good rating system management. Performance management system are consists of process to identify, encourage, measure, evaluate, improve and reward for the performance of employees.

Performance management system is a process to identify, encourage, measure, evaluate, improve and give reward for employee’s performance. The performance standard explains levels of expected performance, and as a comparative material, goals or target depend on the approach that has been taken. Standard performance that are realistic, measurable, and easy to understand, can be benefit both organizations and for employees. Performance standard defines about satisfactory job.

Managing Company’s Image

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:53:49 +0000

In this technological age that seemly without boundaries, marketing communication seems to be the command for a series of corporate marketing efforts. The goal is nothing but to build company’s image or corporate image. Terms of corporate image and what are the components that became the pillars for building corporate image.

Some marketing experts described that there are two main components of the company’s image, which is the functional and emotional, in which functional components associated with attributes that can be measured easily, while the emotional component associated with the psychological dimensions based on customer experiences when interacting with companies.

Corporate image can be sourced from: advertising, public relations, physical image, word of mouth, and the actual experience of consumers using goods or services. Among these, which is considered the most important is the actual experience of consumers using the goods or services.

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Benefits of Working Evaluation

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:21:30 +0000

Making an evaluation about employee’s performance is necessary. It is not an easy task for the management; especially if the evaluation was carried out continuously to increase then the complexity will increase and confusing. Performance evaluation should be done once a year. That conducted continuously is performance management.

In this case, evaluation and management are two things that should be treating differently. Employee’s performance evaluation is done for two goals which are, helping employees to understand the quality of their performance and identifies what are the things need to be improved.

Clearly, the goal is concerning about efforts to change employee’s behavior. Besides that, it also gives motivation to the employees in order to improve their performance. This also means efforts to change their behavior.

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