Performance Management Australian Organizations

Question: Discuss about thePerformance Managementfor Australian Organizations. Answer: Introduction In the competitive society of the modern world, the idea of balancing work and life is taken in to consideration by many people. The Australian organizations are looking for ways and means to make the lives of their employees well balanced in terms of work and their family. Employment traditionally was the means of supporting the private life financially. The work and life balance helps the employers of an organization to have a competitive advantage over others for creating a relationship between the home and work of the employee. It directly results in the creation of lower stress rate in the working environment and enjoyment in home. It improves the performance of the employees in the work place and builds a positive image of the organization in the eyes of the public (Jones, Burke and Westman 2013). Logical Argument According to Fenech (2014), the balance between work and life is very important for a health living. To reach the top of the corporate ladder, employees often sacrifice the quality time of the family and is focused on work too much which creates a negative impact on the life of the employee in the family. In the modern competitive world however, individuals have to improve their professional career, which will help them to support the family financially. The use of apps in the daily lives of the people such as Cloud Computing has helped to turn a new page in balancing the work and life. It is believed by some people that the nature of work is facing a rapid change and it makes us proud to play a part in the changing era. According to Iwata (2016), the beginning of the 20th century saw the introduction of typewriters in the world which revolutionary idea at that period. It changed the whole perspective of writing from manual to electronic mode. This caused the organization to take an extra burden on their shoulders, as they had to train and educate their employees and in procuring the typewriters for the major work force. The invention of computer had lead to a major change across the globe and was incorporated in the organizations to reduce the pressure relating to work. It also paved the way to reduce the errors that were previously committed and provided efficient work in a less span of time. According to Kundnani and Mehta (2016), the concept regarding family has undergone a huge change recently such as same-sex relationships, parents who are single, parents who are divorced and many varieties of communities living in the society. The semantically shift from work-family to work-life is the only recognition that is linked with the dependent children. The other activities like sports, studies, health, fitness, and hobbies all needs to be balanced with the work. The organization concentrates mainly on men and women who are married or living with a partner and with children when the policies regarding work are made. According to Lewis et al. (2016), Cloud computing is an app which changes the perspective of the work. Almost all the companies in the world have adopted this technology and its implementation in the working organizations has bought significant changes in the culture of work. A process enhances the experience of the job by establishing a link between the local server and the remote server. It simply means that employees anywhere within or outside the office premises can handle the projects. It helps in building a relationship between the local and remote servers with that of the employee. The technology of cloud computing has taken the nature of the work to such an extent that employees have the freedom in working. They can work from home or from any other place with the help that Cloud computing can give. The added pressure of going to the office can be significantly reduced to a minimum. The advancements in technology have in face proved to be a threat to the security relating to job and the confidential data of the company. It has helped in widening the scope of the nature of the work and is easily accessible by hackers. They can easily get hold of the confidential materials of the company by simply cracking the codes of the company (Toosi, Calheiros and Buyya 2014). Theory In the field of human resource management, performance management acts as a concept. Goal setting theory is a part of performance management that plays an imperative role to motivate workers for superior performance. On the other hand, expectancy theory is based on the theory that individuals regulate their behavior in the organization based on predictable satisfaction of esteemed goals set by them. According to Rittinghouse and Ransome (2016), the nature of the work in relation to the employees has influenced heavily the work nature in the human resource management sector. The implementation of the technological changes has helped in many ways to make the operations of the employees to be handled in an easy manner but has also added many burdens on the shoulders of the human resource management. The changed work nature all over the world has lead to the possibility of acquiring new talents so that the company can keep up the pace related to the changing environment. There are many options for the employers to allow the employees to maintain a proper work and life balance. It improves the chance of retaining its employees in relation to the goals that needs to be met. It helps to improve the health conditions of the employees and reduces the absenteeism level in the employees, which helps to increase the productivity levels of the company and for the employees as well. The employers can allow its people to work from home at least a day in a week or some days in a month. It can even allow the person to attend the meetings with the help of technology rather than being physically present in the organization. The number of hours required to work can be restricted which allows the employees to peacefully enjoy their after work hours (Armstrong and Taylor 2014). This approach has been taken by some organization wherein the mail servers stops working after a particular number of working hours for the employees. The company needs to promote the image of work and life balance and not boast about it so that the employees will be encouraged and accept the culture of working in that environment. The focus of the organization needs to be on the outcome of the work and not on the number of hours worked because the productivity of the employees cannot be measured in the number of hours worked. Some work can be done before the scheduled time, so it does not makes sense of staying put in the office after completing the work (Snell, Morris and Bohlander 2015). According to Stawarz et al. (2013), the responsibilities for maintaining a balance in work can be done with the different kinds of employing strategies like full time, part time and freelancer by staying within the ethical guidelines of the company. The employees need to be educated regarding the ethical rules and regulations of the company. The roles and responsibilities of various employees comes under the responsibility of the human resource management. According to Cannizzo and Osbaldiston (2016), the management faces many challenges to maintain the different culture of work force. The fact that it has added more responsibilities to a bunch of new opportunities in the human resource management sector has been all because of the technology that is being updated in the modern world. The human resource management can indulge themselves in activities like evaluating the employment methods, which helps them in analyzing the performances of the workers. This directly encourages the employees in achieving their targets. However, there are limitations to this approach as many human resources body have a lackadaisical attitude, which results in complete uselessness of the responsibilities assigned to them, which hinders the evaluation process (Gill and Donaghue 2016). Apps such as TimeTune for Android users and ATracker for the iOS users keep a check on the routines and can carefully plan out the action for the working days. It will help the employees to chalk out the work by shifting towards a more realistic working ratio. Smart phones have the access to Wi-Fi from practically any place and anywhere, but can create problem in the personal life if not managed properly (Allen et al. 2014). The BreakFree app is a tool, which helps in controlling the digital life by identifying the closeness with the phone of the employee. It helps in understanding the apps that are used too frequently. It helps to keep a check on the work life of the employees when they are enjoying with their family on weekends or after work hours. The app called Pacifica aims to manage the stress of the employees that is related to the work. It helps to monitor the mood, helps in meditating and relaxing of the body and keeps a track on the health of the employee. It helps to manage the stress and handle the tense situations in a more proper way (Lyness and Judiesch 2014). Apps also help in maintaining connections with the friends of the individuals who are working in an organization. The app called Connect helps the employees to be in touch with the contacts that they have in their phone, email addresses and in the social media platforms. It helps the individuals to manage their relationships with their friends as well apart from their family (Harr et al. 2014). One of the biggest barriers is to be focused at work with all the tensions the employees have to go through after work. It maybe that the employee might be running late for office, so by mistake keeps the fan on and leaves for work. On reaching the meeting room, he remembers the problem that he encountered at home and cannot concentrate on the topic in the meeting. This hampers the relationship in the work culture as well as the homely environment (Deery and Jago 2015). Cozi, an app that keeps all the necessary information in one place because it includes the calendars, journals and the recipe managers which help the employees to maintain a safety at both the places. Time planning is also an important part in the life of the employees so that they do not miss out the finer things in life. The Weekly Planner app in Android and the Week Plan app in iOS help to ensure that individuals have time to do what they want apart from their busy work schedule and are effective in taking care of the household chores (Todd and Binns 2013). Conclusion and Recommendation The recommendations for an effective work life balance aims at providing equilibrium between work and life for the employees. The support from the management is very important in providing the policies regarding the balance between the work and life. The surveys of the employees at a regular basis help in understanding the needs of the workers so that designing the policies can be easy. The employees need to be assisted with understanding the work and giving it the priority during the working hours so that the employees do not create the notion of taking everything as equal importance with work. The managers and the supervisors need to undergo regular training so that they can understand the level of overwork in their staffs. Allowing work from home and granting sick leave without the certificate of the doctor needs to be kept in mind so that the employees can have the trust on its organization. The need of the apps needs to be discussed with the employees so that they are not overwo rked with the pressure they have in the organization and not become bored with the quality of work. It helps the organization to reduce the absenteeism level in its working culture by improving the morale of the employees and retaining the organizational knowledge of the staffs during the harsh economic conditions of the company. In the global scenario of the present world, the aim of the companies is to reduce their costs and to achieve that the professional human resource management team has to understand the work and life balance method very critically and find out the programs that will make the work and life very easy. The expectation level of the employees is high concerning the work flexibility in the modern society. Hence, some organizations think that the balance between work and life is of strategic importance. An organization with the support from the co-workers and the management will help the company to excel as it will have a flexible type of working option. To succeed, the organizations need to adapt the policy of give and take wherein the employer and the employees needs to be flexible a little so that small amounts of compromises can help in achieving the perfect personal and work lives. 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