The year is finished and the performance reviews start in most organizations. This performance appraisal season will be pretty hard for most managers. The managers will not just evaluate the performance of the individual employees, but they will have to select the employees to leave the organization.
The performance review will be pretty sad, the employees fulfilled most goals as every year, but the manager will have to select the employees with the agendas, which will be discontinued in the new organization.
The managers are given just the number and they have to select the agendas to cancel on their own. The managers should understand the needs of the business and they should also predict the future needs of the organization.
The employees expect when they fulfilled all the goals, that their job should be secure in the organization. The employees do not have the vision of the organization and they do not understand the need to make cost cuts.
The recession needs the organization to save money and the managers have to do the headcount cuts. It is a part of their management responsibility and they have to make their task perfectly. The manager has to be able to explain perfectly, how the responsibilities will be split in the new team, who will get more responsibilities and new tasks to the job role and how the new team will be managed.
The employee to leave the organization has to understand the reasons and the selection criteria used. The criteria have to be fair and the manager should not take the headcount reduction personally. When the employees feel, the criteria were fair, the performance of the team should not be attacked for a longer period of time.
