Motivate your employees, enhance performance and align your employees with company goals. Employee scorecards can be used to do all that and more.
An employee scorecard is a card given to each employee with his name and position written on it. Each day the supervisor of the employee ticks in the employee's scorecard to indicate his performance in that day. The supervisor can also write brief notes in the scorecard of his employee. At the end of the week, the scorecard of the employee is checked to determine performance during the past week. The supervisor can provide his employee with directions on how to improve his performance and point out weaknesses that need to be worked on and improved or mistakes that have been done. In addition, good performance is praised by the supervisor and can be rewarded both financially and morally at the end of the month. The employee scorecards can also be used at the end of the year to determine overall performance of an employee during the whole year.
An employee scorecard is laid out in a tabular or structured format in order to be able to hold information for one complete working week. An employee scorecard may be designed to hold even performance notes for one whole month. A supervisor may choose to write or tick in the scorecard of his employees once a week instead of everyday depending on the type of work of his employees, the number of employees he has under his direct supervision and the amount of time he can provide for such activity.
The kind of information present in an employee scorecard differs depending on the type of his job. For a clerical job, the scorecard can hold such information as the number of pages the employee has typed, the number of applications he has processed and so on. For a sales person, it could be the number of sales calls or sales visits he made or the amount of sales he made. For other more senior positions, an employee scorecard can hold information more closely tied to achieving specific targets. It is important also to remember that besides those numbers the supervisor can also add brief comments about positive or negative performance of his employee.
Employee scorecards might not be good for all types of jobs, specially the more senior ones, but in general they can act as a method for motivating employees and breaking loose their potential. It is worth noting that performance measured in the employee scorecard should be closely tied to company objectives and reflect company goals.