UK businesses must reform their management processes to survive in today’s agile workplace, highlights a new whitepaper by leading HR and payroll supplier, MHR.
Performance Management in the 21st Century explores how a combination of bad management and outdated rigid practices, such as annual appraisals and performance ratings are stifling employee engagement and forcing people to quit their jobs.
The paper includes findings from research carried out by YouGov on behalf of MHR in 2017 into two key areas: annual appraisals and bad management, which are critical in the performance management process. Fifty-four percent of UK employees described annual appraisals as “pointless” or “time-consuming”, and half labelled the process as “stressful” or “difficult”. Amazingly, 80% reported experiencing poor management, of which a staggering 55% admitting that they left their job as a result. Worryingly, a number of respondents said they had experienced bullying, micro-management, aggressive and threatening behaviour from their managers during recent employment.
Michelle Shelton, Product Planning Director at MHR and author of the whitepaper, says: “While the world of work has evolved at a phenomenal pace over the past decade, in many cases, management practice and organisational culture have not. This has led to endemic employee engagement issues. The whitepaper highlights a widespread failure in the way businesses operate, uncovering the need for changes in processes, styles and supporting technology.”
In conjunction with this new whitepaper, this week’s UNLEASH Conference will see MHR showcasing solutions to help aid better management such as new Talent Check-ins technology which helps assist with real-time conversations and is a step towards better performance management.
Day one of UNLEASH (Tuesday 20th March at 1.15pm) will also see Mark Williams, Research Director at MHR, delivering an insightful talk on ‘A Practical Guide to HR and AI’. During his presentation, Mark will explain what AI looks like in its current form and reveal how AI and humans can complement each other.
Mark says: “In order to stimulate employee engagement, productivity and satisfaction we need to reassess the pessimistic view of AI in the workplace. Rather than perceive it as a threat, we need to consider how human-centred AI provides new ways of working that encourage and promote our best qualities, freeing us from the distractions of mundane tasks to spend more time on meaningful and fulfilling work.”
Click here to find out more about the UNLEASH Conference, and to download your copy of the white paper ahead of the event, please click here.