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Employees Poor Performance Is A Matter of History Where 60 Is Viewed as Success
| Guest post by: Leanne Hoagland-Smith |
Article Overview: As a small business owner or executive, did you ever wonder why some employees just don't have the same expectations toward their performance? You try and try and still face the same challenge. Possibly, the solution needs to look beyond your business doors.
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Employees Poor Performance Is A Matter of History Where 60 Is Viewed as Success
Do you wonder why some of your employees expect the world but do not want to work to earn it? Or maybe you can't find "good" workers. Possibly by understanding how we grade public education performance will help you answer these two questions.
Recently I come across the following scale in a national research report to grade each state's education performance within numerous areas. Do you see anything questionable about this scale?
Grading Curve A (93-100), A- (90-92), B+ (87-89), B (83-86), B- (80-82), C+ (77-79), C (73-76), C- (70-72), D+ (67-69), D (63-66), D- (60-62), F (0-59)
If you aren't scratching your head yet, let me answer you another question. If you are an employer, a human resource or a quality control manager what expectations do you have toward the performance of your employees? In other words, do you expect your employees to know 50%, 60%, 75%, 80%, 90% or 100% of their job skills or job description? At what level of knowledge and years on the job, would you consider that employee's performance to be sub-standard and would not entitle her or him to a promotion or a raise and might be within the area of specific discipline strategies from suspension to termination?
Now you might be thinking what is this lady talking about? Common sense dictates that every employee should know at least 75% or 3 out of every 4 requirements of their job and within a certain time frame progress to 100%. Errors are costly in business and employees' errors are extremely expensive as they have a cascade affect within the organization.
Even though the above scale is for a national research report on education in America, this scale is present in many classrooms throughout this country. What has happened is that the low expectations within the classroom have migrated up. F is failing and everything above F is passing. From a performance perspective, if we don't fail, we have success because success has been defined at 60%.
These low expectations have contributed to the low results that have been documented through such research as the National Assessment of Educational Progress where for example reading scores collectively for 17 year olds over the course of 33 years have not changed.
The high standards of 40 years ago where anything less than 75% was failing are non-existent in the majority American schools. Many young people experience 12 years of conditioning where doing less than your personal best is OK and guess what you even get rewarded by promotion to the next grade. Now, these same young people go into the workforce with a belief that it is OK to just get by as long as you don't fail. (Again, failing is 60%.)
If we, as business owners, truly desire to improve the performance of today's employees, we need to raise the standards within both the schools and the organizations that report on the schools’ and states’ performance. Until we stop this cycle of mediocrity, we will continue to receive employees who expect the world without working hard at acceptable levels of performance. Otherwise, employees will continue to view 60% as success.
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