Organization/Position: Walmart - Manager

Evaluation of Performance Management Practices (about one page)

Evaluation of performance management and compensation practices. Evaluate/analyze the companys performance management and compensation practices using the course materials. Your job is to evaluate what you put in the previous section, Description of performance management and compensation practices. In doing so, you might use the following questions to guide your analysis: How well do the companys practices stack up against what the course recommends? For example, does the performance management system conform to the five criteria for effective performance measures (i.e., reliability, validity, acceptability, specificity, fit Team Assignment, Page 2 with strategy)? Does the compensation system meet the effective incentive pay requirements? Why or why not? Are there any areas of conflict between what the organization does and the recommended practices in the course? Are the HRM practices used strategically? That is, regardless of whether they match what we have discussed, do they work for the organization? Why or why not? Do the practices fit with what you know about other companies in the same industry or with similar positions? Why or why not? In your analysis, you must explicitly incorporate course materials in order to demonstrate your application skills and learning in this class. Be sure to bring in your perspective do not just use class materials to define terms. You must go beyond this to actually analyze the practices, and discuss what is good/bad about them for the organization. This section of the paper is the most important in terms of demonstrating your learning, and therefore should be the longest section.