Bringing the web portal into the enterprise: Evaluate employee productivity levels and performance

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The corporate world is a cauldron of changes that are brewing at every instant. Let's take a look at some of the stronger and more common brews here. We will related the corporate web portal and employee productivity levels to them later.

Mergers and Acquisitions!
Mergers and solutions offer a flagrant solution for a tottering economy! They spawn a symbiotic relationship that helps combine profits, consolidate services and also springs up a collective, albeit disgruntled workforce. Well, you may say that increased ROI is what the merger aimed at. Yes, indeed, but don’t employees play a vital role in determining ROI levels?

Renewed and combined forces in a merger battling the carnage-strewn pathways with new and innovative strategies and newfangled visions do promise to deliver the goods alright. But, concentrating on immediate revenue is one thing and calculating all the risks involved at the same time is another. Studies have clearly shown that the new organizational workforce in a merger is usually left in a state of joint confusion. They feel stranded and can’t find a place to fit in the new business model. Employee morale takes a beating and people begin to look at better avenues and organizations to move on to.

Experience has shown that rapid expansions and mergers cause team productivity levels to decline at an alarming rate. Aligning the newfound organizational dream with what each employee imagines it to be is the first approach towards addressing this concern.

Training and performance evaluations
Training employees and motivating them to work towards the newly defined (not clearly defined!) endeavor is a Herculean task. Targeting the right kind of training to individuals and then assessing these skills can help make informed decisions not just at the employee level but also at the loftier levels of leadership.

Traditional training that is imparted in discrete packets some how doesn't fit in with the rest of the organizational plans. Individual departments have their own agenda and this doesn’t always address core organizational issues. Employees learn skills that don’t fit in with the overall vision of the organization. As business strategies change in an incomprehensible manner they don’t have a clue about where their careers are heading.

Without a centralized monitoring system, managers can’t assess performance or even gain access to appraisal reports. Constant monitoring of skills in order to appraise performance levels is the need of the hour. Also, the company executives have no idea how to monitor performance levels. Performance reviews are not accurate and individual promotional hierarchies are not therefore maintained.

Outdated information, low employee morale and the lack of targeted training are some of the challenges posed by the existing work model. The solution entails implementing an enterprise-wide solution to help, track and manage employee performance, start e-learning initiatives and grow a library of custom online courses.

Benefits of implementing Employee Relationship Management (ERM):
The finance department saves on costs and improves efficiencies, while gaining tighter control over cash and productivity. Routine tasks get taken care of, thus resulting in faster and more improved decision-making.

A common platform that supports tens of thousands of users and integrates users in different departments helps reduce paperwork and the time spent on jobs. On and offline access makes it easy to complete time-critical tasks anytime taking employee satisfaction to a higher plane.

Skills management, skills gap analysis and personalized training
With company business rules built in to ERM packages, corporate policies are enforced automatically. Using the enterprise information portal, employees can access preferred vendors like car rental companies, airlines, hotels and office equipment suppliers. They can make travel plans or allott time for projects, and even replace paper-based expense reporting.

Mac, Unix and PC diehards can work on a consistent web-based interface without any problems. A traveling employee can input expenses offline, even from an airplane and then submit them through the Internet later on.

Employees develop efficiency in preparing reports and tracking them, thus improving sales and administration teams. The Finance department is happier due to a lesser work volume and lesser rework, eventually reducing the number of checks that they need to issue.

Corporate wide skills assessment that match skills and competencies with the status of the current organizational skills, and other skills management techniques can be implemented within the spectrum of tools that form the arsenal of an ERM package - an integrated self-service package for any organization.

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