Understanding Employee Goals Using Manager Self Service

Human resources specialists know that when organizations treat employees who contribute to the success of an organization as valuable assets, the organization and the employees mutually benefit. Employees benefit from establishing specific goals that help increase their skills, perform their jobs at a higher level, and advance their careers.

The employee goals system is linked to the performance management system so that managers have a concise method of measuring employee performance and improvement. You can create employee goals for either competency based or traditional performance appraisals. When you create a competency based appraisal, you can create employee goals for each employee competency. You can also create a separate, personalized career development plan. Using either appraisal approach, the employee goals feature is a tool that you can use to help the employees reach personal and corporate objectives.

You use the Current Performance Appraisals program (P087712) to review an employee appraisal and add employee goals. Although you normally create goals at the same time that you are reviewing an appraisal, you can add and revise them after you finish the appraisal process. After you submit the appraisal and the system locks it to prevent changes to the appraisal, you can still review and change employee goal suggestions.

The human resources department defines the competency information that is used in competency based performance appraisals and employee goals. You can use existing goal suggestions that might already exist, or you can use the Work With Competency Information form (W05104A) to add new ones. You can also create additional items in the UDC tables to support employee goals.