Identifying the Right Ones. Personal Qualifications for an ongoing Employee

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,7, language: English, abstract: Identify the right ones is for every manager a tough task at any time, especially if the upper management comes up with the idea to lay off a certain amount of employees at an explicit date. This assignment gives some advice for this task. Prepare a balanced scorecard of the employees with a certain number of measures regularly. Take in account that the results should not contain only subjective marks. This can be achieved by demanding a self-assessment of every employee. This can be part of the 360-degree feedback. The opportunity of a limited competition for the last employees can help to further minimize the subjectivity inserted into the process. Side effects like the too early recognition of the lay off process as well as the chance to use a consultant as a mediator have to be considered.