Employee Performance Management & Career Development solution is a component of Honeycomb®ERP Human Resource Management Application Suite and can be deployed with Recruitment, Profile Management, Workforce Management, Attendance & Leave Management, Payroll & Compensation Management to support an organization's complete humanresource requirements. With Honeycomb®ERP, the Performance Evaluation & Career Development is a process which requires following phases:

• Planning Phase: Set mutually agreed upon goals and guidelines for employee evaluation. Determine the key objectives for measuring success in the position and set developmental goals to encourage greater productivity and results.
• Performance Phase: The longest phase that allows the employee to meet goal and objectives, develop new skills and track accomplishments or setbacks in the system throughout the process. Managers are reviewing performance and making notes as well.
• Assessment Phase: Employees are given an opportunity near the end of the performance cycle to provide feedback on the preset goals, competencies and objectives to deliver to their manager. This is when the manager will document feedback on the employee performance as well. The system allows senior managers to review all submitted documentation and sign off before the actual review is complete.
• Review Phase: Manager and employee sit down together to discuss the year in review. Reviews can be presented online or printed and e-signature that the review took place can be captured in the system to protect the organization if legal review should occur.
• Development Phase: Senior manager builds career path of employees based upon their feedback, performance, skill, preferences and vocational interests. Talent is identified, retained and best employed towards achieving organizational goals and retaining satisfied talented workforce.
• Succession Phase: This intelligent activity helps to identify talent gaps and reduce attrition and flight risk by administering talent profiles and succession-pipeline, high-potential indicator and succession pool grouping, individual readiness codes and timelines for future target positions. Succession Planning helps you remain ahead of the employment curve, retain top performers, proactively manage employee performance and prevent surprises.

The system is designed and tailored to meet the above requirements in a very simple and user friendly manner. Various tools and aids are provided to meet the user’s requirements, these include:

• On-Target Goal Management– ensures your workforce is aligned with the goals and strategies of the organization.
• Sophisticated Competency Management – define your competencies/behaviors to suit your specific needs – from simple to highly sophisticated.
• Career and Development Planning – create individual development plans that will improve employee performance today and build-up the existing talent in your organization in preparation for tomorrow.
• Year-Round Performance Journal – let your performance evaluations become a living document that helps you track performance and develop your workforce year round.
• Flexible Forms, Line Manager Tools and Authoring Aids – let you write better appraisals faster using intuitive tools, content and authoring aids. It helps you build appraisal forms with point and click simplicity that match your current paper forms including your corporate branding.
• Configurable Automated Email Reminders – automatically notify managers or employees about upcoming tasks and send friendly reminders to those who are late – set it up once and let it go!
• Configurable Automated Workflow – quickly and easily set up the type of appraisal processes you want including specific tasks you want completed, when and by who – and let Appraisal do the rest including reminding everyone to complete their tasks.
• Real-Time Reporting – HR Administrators and Line Managers can quickly determine risk areas and instantly identify high performers. See the status of all processes underway; generate goal reports, training and development reports
• Dashboards - Dashboards with real-time reporting for HR, Line Manager and Executives – get a graphical snapshot of Key Performance Indicators to see whether progress, ratings, and goal setting are in line with expectations or whether immediate action is required.

Goal Management

With Goal Management as part of the Employee Performance Management, corporate objectives as set by the organization’s governing body become a core component of every employee’s annual plan. Goals can be cascaded throughout the organization from the top or they can be set to begin at the manager level. A complete view of the progress toward meeting goals is displayed in a wrap up for executives with automatic calculation of goal completion at every level in the organization. The Honeycomb®ERP Goal Management Provides:

• Visibility to corporate goals and objectives throughout the organization from the senior-level down to the front-line.
• Simplifies the calculation and pools data into an easy to review executive roll-up, so progress can be monitored throughout the year and adjustments can be made to ensure your organization stays on track.
• Enables collaborative goal building between employees and their managers, thereby empowering employees to take an active role in their career and facilitating conversation between them and management.
• Allows an employee’s achievement in meeting goals to affect the overall appraisal score.
• Allows for easy transition of assigned goals from one appraisal cycle to the next.
• The foundation of this process includes:
• Managing Individual Performance: Best practices for the performance appraisal process
• Achieving Goals: Alignment of individual goals to corporate goals
• Developing Top Performers: Assignment of objectives to challenge future leaders

Performance Management

Honeycomb®ERP Performance Management will allow you to create and deploy standardized, online performance appraisal forms with clearly defined evaluation scales - helping to facilitate a thorough, objective review for every employee. Honeycomb®ERP Performance Management will assist supervisors with managing, developing and retaining their best people. Honeycomb®ERP Performance Management has the ability to reveal where the talent is within your organization, who are the top performers, who are achieving personal and organizational goals and who all are contributing towards you’re your success. The key features of Honeycomb®ERP Performance Management include matching employee competency profiles to job-success profiles; analyze gaps of skills for particular positions and jobs, ability to tailor 360-degree appraisals to automatically flow through areas, groups or positions within the organization you define, according to an unlimited schedule, and assign weights to individual sections of a review, ability to show individual performance review status and overall organizational-unit scorecard on a management dashboard.

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Analytics automates the calculation of performance indicators (PIs) or measurement criterions. Select a particular performance indicator, and the measurement can be graphically displayed in multiple views such as bar graphs, spreadsheets and pie charts. Some views include a special feature called “traffic lighting” that provides an immediate visual display of trouble spots highlighted in one shade, and areas doing well in another shade. Using a program supplied and powered by Honeycomb®ERP, the data is extracted at the aggregate level from your database. Data may be reported by your HR structure or general ledger structure. Once your data is extracted, it is loaded into a data mart, or multidimensional database. You can view information by specific year, comparing one year to another, percentiles etc. All of the views are ready to use, requiring no special programming on the customer side. Workforce Analytics does the work for you.

360° Reviews

Honeycomb®ERP 360° Reviews transforms time-consuming, once-a-year performance reviews into an ongoing, goals-oriented evaluation process. The solution goes beyond online appraisals and 360° reviews, enabling you to create competency-based employee development plans, assess employee performance against measurable objectives and review progress at any time, create a pay-for-performance environment that rewards your top performers, conduct online 360° review for a full picture of performance. Honeycomb®ERP 360º Feedback allows for a complete view of how employees interact with co-workers, managers, clients or vendors from their unique perspectives. The benefits of Honeycomb®ERP 360° reviews to your organization include a thorough view of the competency mix in your organization, ability to identify and reduce competency gaps, better understanding of coaching opportunities for high-potential employees, indicating clear career path to create a more motivated workforce, proactive succession planning for your company’s future talent needs.

Honeycomb®ERP 360°Review Works on an Interesting Principal of ‘FACES, that includes:

• Facilitating deep and meaningful discussions between managers and their employees
• Acquiring performance and employee feedback in the most efficient and cost-effective way.
• Creating individualized development plans, which can become a core part of the performance appraisal process.
• Engaging employees in a revealing and dynamic, multi-rater review process that is perfect for self-development and career planning.
• Supporting the succession planning process by linking the development of specific capabilities and competencies to advancement and leadership development opportunities within the organization.

Honeycomb®ERP 360°Review comes standard with pioneering, industry-leading tools that have made it one of the most recommended evaluation software solutions for performance management. The product features include:

• Easy-to-use with an intuitive, user-friendly interface that delivers the ability to conduct multi-rater assessments with no prior technical experience. Use e360 right of the box or completely reconfigure it to meet your needs. A save and resume function to provide maximum flexibility while ensuring time for thoughtful responses. Automatic spell checker avoids potentially embarrassing mistakes while significantly reduced admin time to check all reviews.
• Question Centre makes it simple to generate and modify questionnaires to set the right tone, provide instructions as required, or to change the look and feel of the form. Create questions from scratch or copy and paste from other evaluations or from a comprehensive library of default questions. Supports multiple response formats ranging from double-point rating scales to open text.
• Evaluation Center completely simplifies the peer review and employee feedback process. Easily create and launch different evaluations for various groups within the organization. Control all aspects of each evaluation process from a central point – including notification triggers, questionnaire status, changes to the reporting structure, etc. Maintain confidentiality by ensuring only those individuals relevant to the respondent are shown.
• Notification Centre ensures processes run smoothly and evaluations are completed on time. Create and send a variety of reminder messages to individuals and groups based on the status of their evaluations. Automatically send notification and reminder notices to keep the process moving forward in an efficient, timely manner.
• Report Center enables you to quickly generate a variety of reports, drill down into different categories and question details, and print reports directly from each screen or from a batch print function – all with the click of a mouse. Quickly and efficiently gather a broad range of usable feedback and performance data. Real-time status monitoring for the evaluator, subject or systems administrator. Instantly produce graphical reports for web or print. Get fully customizable views for
• managers, evaluators, subjects and system administrators. Archives evaluations for future reference.

Career Development

It is a valuable tool for understanding talent within your organization. Use the solution as a portal for hosting information for every position in your organization, as well as the competencies and skills held by the employee. When a person leaves a role, the job details stay intact. With Career Development and Succession Planning, managers and executives are able to:

• Allow employees to take an active role in their careers and help managers prepare future talent by developing career paths for employees, including important milestones such as skill development and on the job experience.
• Fill new positions or staff project teams with the right people within your organization by searching for key skills, competencies and experience within the solution.
• Identify individual or organizational skills and competency gaps with a gap analysis that assists employees in determining where they need development for future positions.
• View the potential matrix to see who is ready for the next level, at risk for turnover, or simply not producing results. This will be a bird’s eye view of people who are ready for movement in your organization.
• Implement and review succession plans to consider internal candidates for open positions first, lowering cost of hire and reducing time to productivity.
• A valuable tool for understanding talent within your organization.
• Allow employees to take an active role in their careers and help managers prepare future talent by developing career paths for employees, including important milestones such as skill development and on the job experience.
• Fill new positions or staff project teams with the right people within your organization by searching for key skills, competencies and experience within the solution.
• Identify individual or organizational skills and competency gaps with a gap analysis that assists employees in determining where they need development for future positions.
• View the potential matrix to see who is ready for the next level, at risk for turnover, or simply not producing results. This will be a bird’s eye view of people who are ready for movement in your organization.
• Implement and review succession plans to consider internal candidates for open positions first, lowering cost of hire and reducing time to productivity.

Succession Management

Honeycomb®ERP Succession Management will help you set up organizational plans to backfill vacancies. Receive alerts when employees are either ready for progression, or at risk of leaving. This intelligent will help you identify talent gaps and reduce attrition and flight risk by administering talent profiles and succession-pipeline, high-potential indicator and succession pool grouping, individual readiness codes and timelines for future target positions. Honeycomb®ERP Succession Management helps you remain ahead of the employment curve, retain top performers and proactively manage employee performance. Honeycomb®ERP Succession Management Features include:

• Employee Talent Profile - summarizes key talent indicators and competency gaps in a single view for line managers, executives and succession managers.
• Integration with performance management - collect and analyze essential succession planning data as a component of your performance management process, data such as promotion potential, timing, and risk of employee leaving are easily gathered as additional data points during the review and combined with overall performance score to provide a basis to begin succession planning.
• High Potential Analysis - plots each employee according to the key ratings of performance score and manager-assessed potential in a chart that easily identifies "high potential" employees – nominate the most promising employees into a talent pool for development purposes.
• Talent Pools - define any number of talent pools with the competency model that is required for success within that pool. Associate development plans that include job rotations, key assignments, formal training, off-the-job activities, e-learning, etc. that are required to build the competencies required for filling future roles in the organization.
• "Talent Assessments" - execute regular talent assessments on the members of your talent pools – this ensures that they are following development plans and constantly improving towards closing any gaps in their potential. These assessments support upper level manager/HR reviews and approvals, and associated e-mail notifications to keep the process on schedule. Collect self-ratings and 360-degree input. Measure the skill and competency gaps between each individual and the ideal for the talent pool. During the assessment, assign development items to build the skills required to close the gaps.
• Promotions from within - locate successors and candidates for new positions from a pool of talent that is ready to meet the need. An on-line query tool for succession managers to filter, rank and compare people based on performance and succession data. Drill into the detailed talent profile for greater insight, including a detailed gap analysis against the talent pool, for each employee providing a match.