Managing poor performance

There are times where employee is not performing up to the expected standards. This usually happens when quarterly/annually performance review is conducted by the superior on the employee. 

Employers/companies need to ensure that the criteria and standard used to gauge the performance of the employee are objective and reasonable. Thus, the employers/companies need to come out with a set of appraisal standards when assessing the performance of employee.

For employee who has performed poorly, the employee may be put under performance improvement plan (‘PIP’) to assist him/her to improve the performance to a satisfactory standard set by employers/companies. 

However, the employee must be given sufficient time to improve and being warned that failure to improve to the standard required within the given time may lead to the dire consequence of dismissal. 

In most cases, employers/companies are required to provide certain guidance and assistance to enable the employees to improve on their performance.