Question 1: Importance of Performance Assessment
Understanding your business is a crucial component of it operating efficiently and economically. Performance assessment is a tool to assist Yacker Transport in understanding their business and ensuring it is meeting its objectives. If a business is not meeting its objectives there could be negative financial, and even social or environmental implications. In the case of YT if one objective is to ensure at least 2 tonnes of freight are on each truck, and the actual result is only 1 tonne, YT will need to take corrective action. An implication of not meeting this objective could be increased transport costs, as twice as many trucks are required to transport the same amount of freight, which is
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A key resource for Yacker Transport in fuel for their fleet of vehicles. Fuel pricing within New Zealand is reasonably volatile, in response to supply of crude oil, and due to exchange rates of New Zealand dollars to United States Dollars (Energy, n.d.). These are two market forces which can have a significant impact of the variable costs of Yacker Transport’s operations, as such an increase in the cost of fuel will impact YT’s profitability, and thus potential return. Regulation, such as an increased tax on fuel, also will have similar impacts on YT’s performance. However, YT could benefit from regulations that enable higher volumes of freight to be transported, such as occurred in 2010 with high productivity motor vehicles rules (New Zealand Transport Agency, n.d.).
Many of YT’s employees likely have a reasonable amount of autonomy, due to the nature of the logistics and transport industry delivering to rural New Zealand. Consequently, employee motivation and goal congruence is an important factor that will influence YT’s performance. YT need to ensure that their employees are performing at their best, where there is not a strong level of management oversight, as employees are operating independently. If YT can ensure goal congruence, all of their staff will be working toward the same objectives, and as such improving YT’s performance. To achieve this YT need to understand what motivates their employees, whether it be intrinsic
Employee motivation is, or at least must be, one of the key issues for directors, managers and personnel managers. The leader must be able to find the sensitive strings of his subordinates, which can be motivated by influencing them to achieve high performance. The correct use of motivation encourages staff to make more efficient use of their knowledge, skills, and talents. In today's turbulent, often chaotic environment, commercial success depends on the employee's talent and effort. Despite the many existing theories and practices, some of the motivation of leaders today remains a mystical term. This is partly due to the fact that people are motivated by different things and techniques.
During the initial assessment, the assessor must introduce themselves to the learner and ensure that they understand what the course is.
In my point of view assessment is a testing tool by which a teacher or assessor can use to detect the outcomes of teaching, learning or assessment process with the learners by
That according to the study, males have earlier, more frequent intercourse both before and after marriage, emphasize sexual pleasure as a motive for intercourse, and have more non-marital and extramarital relationships than females. I feel that this is mostly true among me and my other groups of friends who are male.
02 Assessment task – Communication and professional relationships with children, young people and adults. Explain why effective communication is important in developing positive relationship In order to contribute to positive relationships, effective communication is vital. By communicating effectively, we are encouraging a good relationship, be it with children, young people or adults. This means we are more likely to talk about things that need to be discussed.
We can define motivation as the desire and willingness to do something and the inner force that helps individuals achieve their goals. Understanding what motivates employees and what employers can do to motivate their employees has been the focus of research for many years. This is mainly because motivated employees can provide an organisation with a distinctive advantage and a competitive edge and by being more productive they can help the organisation thrive and survive. In a public service organisation such as West North West Homes we would expect staff to be motivated partly by the desire to have a positive impact on others. Someone working within a sales team
It is important to identify needs early and seek consent, before you do a common assessment you should check who else is working with the child or young person. You should also check whether a common assessment already exists. This will be assisted by the introduction of contact point, which will indicate whether a Child Assessment Framework exists for a child or young person and the contact details for the practitioner who ‘holds’ the CAF or who acts as lead professional (Contact point will only hold records for children and young people from birth to their 18th birthday. It will not hold records of unborn babies).
The reliability of an assessment in a perfect situation should produce the same results if marked by another tutor or if that examiner unknowingly receives the same paper again. If different marks are given the assessment is consequently unreliable and proves that this assessment is subjective.
The roles of the assessor may not be strictly that of a teacher but more of a mentor guiding a Learner to there eventual goal of gaining the qualification by giving appropriate feedback.
Describe and explain the ways in which assessment practice has the potential to impact students’ learning:
This research work is based on finding out the factors of motivation that can be employed for the NHS foundation staff. The NHS Foundation trust is a semi-autonomous organization within the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. These trusts have a certain degree of independence and work in an autonomous form as related to the Department of Health in the country. As computed in March 2014, there are 147 foundation trusts for NHS operating in the country. The factor of motivation of the employees in the workplace is extremely important for deciding the performance levels of an organization that functions in the healthcare segment. As such, this research is conducted to evaluate the existing motivation levels, strategies and performance within the organization. In addition, the motivation strategies that can be used by the business managers in the organization are considered and their practical application is analysed. The research would be mainly based on secondary research methodology in which data would be gathered from the employee groups working in the NHS foundation Trust. The research report is structured in a methodical and step by step manner. Suitable research aims and objectives are designed followed by a thorough review of the available literatures on the topic of motivation. The literature review would help to provide a base for the development of the research work and for analysing the collected data from a theoretical
Ensure sales process using point of sale is efficient and accurate to a high standard
The success of any business depends on the productivity and satisfaction of its employees. Employees need to be motivated to work. Motivation can be defined as the inner force that drives individuals to accomplish personal and organizational goals. Motivation can be either intrinsic or extrinsic. For an individual to be motivated in a work situation there must be a need, which the individual would have to perceive a possibility of satisfying through some reward. Intrinsic motivation stems from motivations that are inherent and arise from performing the task of the job itself, which the individual gets a feeling of either positive or negative motivation as a result of
Motivation in the workplace is one of the major concerns that managers face when trying to encourage their employees to work harder and do what is expected of them on a day-to-day basis. According to Organizational Behavior by John R. Schermerhorn, James G. Hunt and Richard N. Osborn the definition of motivation is "the individual forces that account for the direction, level, and persistence of a person's effort expended at work." They go on to say that "motivation is a key concern in firms across the globe." Through the years there have been several theories as to what motivates employees to do their best at work. In order to better understand these theories we will apply them to a fictitious organization that has the following
The identification of key factors or indicators in the motivation of employees in an organization of your choice.