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    Employee Development

    Agency HR offices are the primary advisors to supervisors and managers on how to develop employees, helping them to do their jobs more effectively through a variety of programs and best practices.

     

    Commonwealth policies outline the requirements for performance reviews and provide guidance on recognizing employees who do their jobs well in addition to management of poorly performing employees. 

     

    Successful workforce planning relies heavily on a comprehensive employee development strategy. Find out more about workforce planning at the commonwealth.               

     

    View Commonwealth Policies
    View Workforce Planning

    Evaluating Performance

    Employee performance reviews are the mechanism used in the commonwealth to assess performance of most employees. Select groups of employees have unique performance evaluation systems.

    Developing Employee Skills

    HR professionals can help employees gain skills they may need to grow in their current or future positions by facilitating their participation in OA programs including:

    Information about these programs is available in the Employee Resource Center.

    Managing Performance

    Discipline

    HR professionals help supervisors manage performance. They assist when employees who are not performing their work in a satisfactory way may be subject to discipline.

    Recognition

    Recognition acknowledges great results and encourages positive performance. Management Directive 505.23 Employee Recognition Programs provides policy and guidelines for agency recognition programs. Agencies are encouraged to develop an agency recognition program that acknowledges employee accomplishments in a variety of areas, such as outstanding performance, retirement, longevity, and judicious use of leave. Some low and no cost ideas for employee recognition are available for your reference.

    Performance Management Resources

    In addition to training made available to HR professionals and supervisors through the Commonwealth University (CU), the following tools are provided to help HR professionals understand performance management and advise supervisors:

    Contact Us

    The OA-Talent Development is available to assist with employee training development and can be contacted at 717.787.3813.