Think about what you find personally motivating on your job. If the environment were toxic, your supervisor harsh, your colleagues difficult to work with, or you did not value what you were doing, how much salary or bonus would make it worthwhile to go to work every day? This week you will apply insights about this question to managing performance of your employees—current or future.

Write about the following:

• As a leader in higher education, how would you recognize and encourage top performance?
• How would you use the results of performance management to inform critical staffing decisions and professional development?
• What would you do to promote succession planning?

(Assignment length 2–3 pages)

Required Readings

Focus On: There are many facets to performance management, such as evaluation and motivation to promote productivity, and remediation for poor performance. Tenure is a unique motivational and evaluative process for faculty. Focus on the varied ways employees are appraised, noting which you think would work best for you.

Required Media

Lauren Turner describes performance management in this video—how faculty and staff earn promotions and what kinds of awards are offered. Transcript

This scenario examines approaches to improving performance—a delicate process requiring full disclosure and clear directives to prevent one employee’s problem at home to become everyone’s problem at work.

• Introduction Transcript
• Scenario 1 Transcript
• Scenario 2 Transcript
• Scenario 3 Transcript
• Scenario 4 Transcript