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AJ11 Manage the performance of teams and individuals

AJ11.3 Assess the performance of teams and individuals

Performance Required

This will involve:

1. Clearly explaining the purpose of monitoring and assessment to all those involved
2. Giving opportunities to teams and individuals to monitor and assess their own performance against objectives and work plans
3. Monitoring the performance of teams and individuals at times most likely to maintain and improve effective performance
4. Ensuring that your assessment of the performance of teams and individuals is based on sufficient, valid and reliable information
5. Carrying out your assessments objectively, against clear, agreed criteria
6. Ensuring that your assessments take due account of the personal circumstances of team members and the organisational constraints on their work

Occupational Context

1. Purpose:
   • assuring that objectives have been achieved
   • assuring that quality and customer requirements have been met
   • appraising team or individual performance
   • assessing performance for reward
   • recognising competent performance and achievement.
2. Assessment of:
   • teams
   • individuals
3. Monitoring:
   • specific to one activity or objective
   • general to overall performance of the team or individual
4. Information
   • qualitative
   • quantitative
5. Organisational constraints:
   • organisational objectives
   • organisational policies
   • resources

Knowledge Requirements

You need to know and understand how to:

• Make fair and objective assessments
• Monitor and assess the performance of teams and individuals

You need to know about:

Monitoring and assessment

• The importance of being clear yourself about the purpose of monitoring and assessment and communicating this effectively to those involved
• The importance of monitoring and assessing the ongoing performance of teams and individuals
• Different purposes of work monitoring and assessment
• The standards against which work is to be assessed

Information

• The information needed to assess the performance of teams and individuals
• How the necessary information should be gathered and validated

Contingency and variance

• The importance of providing opportunities to team members to monitor and assess their own work, and how to enable this
• The organisational constraints which may affect the achievement of objectives
• The types of personal circumstances which may impact on individual performance

Required Skills

You should demonstrate:

• Assessment skills

Evidence Required

You should provide evidence that you can assess the performance of teams and individuals

The candidate should be questioned, based upon the documentation provided, to explore how they:

• assess the performance of teams and individuals.

Observation of the candidate or witness testimony will be essential as evidence of performance

• Your evidence must be the result of real work activities undertaken by yourself.

Evidence Rules

The candidate should have been involved in managing the performance of teams and individuals in a diverse range of contexts

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Today's date: 22/11/2008
This page last updated: 6/8/2007 10:58