News: Performance Management
Performance management can help flexible working run smoothly
20 December 2007
Performance management training can help with the smooth implementation of flexible working.
Speaking to Personnel Today, Keith Nash of recruitment consultancy Badenoch & Clark said that firms needed to make flexible working a priority.
"If employees are free to work at times they feel suit them, rather than slogging away at their desks and working long hours, then your workforce will be much more productive overall," he said.
However, managers must take care that those who do not work from home are not left feeling resentful.
Mr Nash says that, if a solid performance management system is put in place, these issues can be defused. The quality and quantity of the output of homeworking should be monitored, and appraisals should be undertaken frequently.
"You want to limit any unforeseen consequences, so it's about making change in a consultative way," he said.
The government recently announced that it would extend the right to flexible working to parents of older children.
