Overview
Performance Management is a broad unit which focuses on ways of effectively managing employee performance through performance evaluation and compensation management. Fundamental to this process is a sound understanding of the theoretical formulation of both job analysis and design. An organisation's compensation policies play a major role in its ability to attract and retain skilled and/or experienced employees, to motivate high quality performance, and to support organisational strategic objectives. Performance evaluation or appraisal systems provide one of the major performance control mechanisms in an organisation, as well as impacting on motivation.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisite: 48 credit points
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2017
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student Evaluations
Assessment Items The assessment Criteria on both pieces is hard to understand then previous HR courses done. The assignment format confused me
All HRM Courses are currently under renewal through the AHRI accreditation application process. This includes assessment items and marking rubrics.
AHRI accreditation approved for this course.
- Describe the major concepts and techniques concerned with the way in which organisations manage their people.
- Outline the key approaches to identifying and assessing employee and organisational performance.
- Identify the important relationship between an organisation's performance management system and human resource management.
- Explain the major reward practices and their implications in performance management.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||
| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 50% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Performance Management: Pearson New International Edition
Edition: 3rd (2013)
Authors: Herman Aguinis
Pearson Australia
Frenchs Forest Frenchs Forest , NSW , Australia
ISBN: 9781292024073
Binding: Paperback
Additional Textbook Information
The University recommends you download an e-book direct from the Publisher.
Option 1 - VitalSource eText
Title: Performance Management: Pearson New International Edition VitalSource eText (3e)
Author: Aguinis, H. the ISBN number is 9781292037134
Available via Pearson’s website at http://www.pearson.com.au/9781292037134
Option 2 - Hard copy from publisher
Title: Performance Management: Pearson New International Edition (3e)
Author: Aguinis, H. the ISBN number is 9781292024073
Available via Pearson’s website at http://www.pearson.com.au/9781292024073
Option 3 – Hard copy from CQUniversity bookshop
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 6th Edition (APA 6th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
l.e.baker@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Performance Management: An Overview
Overview of course content, expectations and assessment.
Chapter
Readings on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Performance Management and Reward Systems in Context
Chapter
Aguinis Chapter 1
Readings on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Performance Management Process
Chapter
Aguinis Chapter 2
Readings on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Commence work on Assessment Item 2, Portfolio Task, Element 1
Module/Topic
Performance Management and Strategic Planning
Chapter
Aguinis Chapter 3
Readings on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Defining Performance and Choosing a Measurement Approach
Chapter
Aguinis Chapter 4
Readings on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Measuring Results and Behaviours
Chapter
Aguinis Chapter 5
Readings on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Commence work on Assessment Item 2, Portfolio Task, Element 2
Module/Topic
Gathering Performance Information
Chapter
Aguinis Chapter 6
Readings on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Implementing a Performance Management System
Chapter
Aguinis Chapter 7
Readings on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Performance Management and Employee Development
Chapter
Aguinis Chapter 8
Readings on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Commence work on Assessment Item 2, Portfolio Task, Element 3
Module/Topic
Performance Management Skills
Chapter
Aguinis Chapter 9
Readings on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Reward Systems and Legal Issues
Chapter
Aguinis Chapter 10
Readings on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Managing Team Performance
Chapter
Readings on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Written Assessment
Objective
This is an individual assessment task in which students will examine critical issues in relation to performance management. The objective is to gain a greater understanding of the effective management of employee performance through reward systems in context. This assessment item relates to course learning outcomes 1 and 4.
Structure
The assignment should be written in report format in no more than 2000 words. Follow the CQU Guide for Report Writing (available on Moodle).
Your assignment must be written in Times New Roman, size 12, with 1.5 line spacing. You must follow all other formatting rules specified in the guide mentioned above.
Task
This task uses a video case study of the Lincoln Electric Company in Cleveland, Ohio. Links to the video case study can be found on the Moodle site.Imagine you are a HR executive at the Lincoln Electric Company:
- Analyse the reward practices used at Lincoln Electric and their implications for the management of employee performance.
- What alternative reward practices could be used to manage employee performance at Lincoln Electric?
- What would you recommend management at Lincoln Electric do to improve its current reward and performance management processes?
Your report should contain a response of approximately equivalent length to all of the critical thinking questions presented above. Provide relevant research evidence to justify and support your responses in addition to the set text.
Instructions:
You are expected to read widely for the assignment. You should access scholarly material (not just your textbook), including peer reviewed journal articles, chapters from edited books of readings, and books on specific human resource management (HRM) topics (at least 8 additional references required for the entire assignment).
A good guide would be to use at least 2 additional references (ideally these would be journal articles from 2010-2016) for each of the questions. The reference lists found in your prescribed textbook, as well as other texts, are good places to start when searching for additional references. Reliance on websites or textbooks only is NOT an appropriate academic literature search and will not help you to achieve higher marks and/or grading.
The purpose of this piece of assessment is for you to demonstrate your ability to construct an in-depth and critical analysis discussion on Performance Management topics. In doing so, you are expected to use, and correctly cite, a range of relevant scholarly literature as evidence to justify and support your work.
Week 5 Friday (7 Apr 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 6 Friday (21 Apr 2017)
This is an estimated date. Normally assignments will be returned within two weeks from the nominated submission date, or from the date of their receipt by the marker. Sometimes there might be a delay pending contingencies.
- Ability to critically evaluate case study by comparing the organisational context to literature (30%)
- Demonstrate understanding of performance management processes, concepts and techniques (30%)
- Ability to problem solve to explain major reward practices and their implication in performance management (30%)
- Appropriate use of the conventions of Report writing: structure, language, length and tone (5%)
- Appropriate use of the APA referencing system (5%)
All information for assessments shown in this course profile must be read in conjunction with the instructions provided on Moodle course website. Please see the course website for more details about the marking criteria.
- Describe the major concepts and techniques concerned with the way in which organisations manage their people.
- Explain the major reward practices and their implications in performance management.
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Practical and Written Assessment
Objective
This is an individual assessment task in which students will examine a range of elements of a Performance Management System. The aim is to gain a theoretical and practical understanding of the connections between elements of the system and the management of employee performance. This assessment item relates to course learning outcomes 2 and 3.
Structure
The portfolio comprises three elements each examining one aspect of a Performance Management System. Each element has a research component of a 400 word discussion plus the development of a 'form' or the completion of a practical activity. The 400 word discussion should follow the CQU's guide for writing essays (available on Moodle).
Your assignment must be written in Times New Roman, size 12, with 1.5 line spacing. You must follow all other formatting rules specified in the guide mentioned above.
Tasks
It is recommended that these elements be attempted in the week corresponding to the topic of each element. You can gain informal peer feedback on each element in class or via the Moodle discussion board.
Element 1: Job Analysis – Critically discuss the importance of job analysis to organisational performance (written). Using O*NET create a summary description for your ‘Ideal Job’ as well as a list of tasks, knowledge, skills and abilities needed for successful performance (practical).
Element 2: Measuring Results and Behaviours – ‘A focus on results encourages unethical behaviour’. Discuss. (written). Identify three competencies of your ‘Ideal Job’ created in Task 1, identify a critical behaviour indicator for each competency, generate critical incidents (high, average and poor performance) for each behaviour indicator, and create graphic rating scales using BARS to measure each competency (practical).
Element 3: Employee Development – Discuss the link between employee development and one negative and one positive organisational outcome (written). Ask your class members/ friends/ family to provide feedback on the degree to which you currently display the three competencies of your ‘Ideal Job’ identified in Task 2. Develop and complete a Professional Development Plan and Form to improve your performance against each of the competencies (practical).
Instructions:
You are expected to read widely for the assignment. You should access scholarly material (not just your textbook), including peer reviewed journal articles, chapters from edited books of readings, and books on specific human resource management (HRM) topics (at least 4 references required for each element). The reference lists found in your prescribed textbook, as well as other texts, are good places to start when searching for additional references. Reliance on websites or textbooks only is NOT an appropriate academic literature search and will not help you to achieve higher marks and/or grading.
The purpose of this piece of assessment is for you to demonstrate your ability to construct an in-depth and critical analysis discussion on the given topics. In doing so, you are expected to use, and correctly cite, a range of relevant scholarly literature as evidence to justify and support your work.
Week 12 Monday (29 May 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Monday (5 June 2017)
This is the final assessment for this course. Assignments, along with the marks, will not be returned until the official certification of grades (10-July-2015) set by CQUniversity.
- Demonstrated knowledge of key approaches to identifying and assessing employee and organisational performance (30%)
- Identification of the relationship between Performance Management Systems, organisational performance and Human Resource Management (30%)
- Ability to critically evaluate different Performance Management Systems (30%)
- Appropriate use of the conventions of Essay writing: structure, language, length and tone (5%)
- Appropriate use of the APA referencing system (5%)
All information for assessments shown in this course profile must be read in conjunction with the instructions provided on Moodle course website. Please see the course website for more details about the marking criteria.
- Outline the key approaches to identifying and assessing employee and organisational performance.
- Identify the important relationship between an organisation's performance management system and human resource management.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
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What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
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