The Research On The Performance Management Improvement On Techonological Staff Of Hunan International Engineering Consulting Corporation

As a fundamental content of the management, human resource management has been paid much attention not only in the theoretic field but also in the practical field and has been regarded as the major factor to the improvement of a company's competitive ability. Performance management is the key to the human resource management. How to set up a performance management that fits for the company itself and can be implemented smoothly has been explored a long period by companies all over the world. Although many research fruits have been harvested during the past years, however up to present, research literatures and results that are clearly targeting the engineering consulting companies' performance management are fairly scarce. And engineering consulting companies have their distinct traits in personnel structure, organizational structure another respects. In the process of Chinese domestic enterprises' carrying out their performance management, a majority of them just bluntly take over whatever research results that are produced overseas. This situation makes the combining of domestic human environment and engineering consulting companies' own traits to exercise the research of the effective performance management of the technological staff highly necessary and valuable.This thesis analyzes the problems of Hunan International Engineering Consulting Corporation (HIECC)'s human resource management, especially in the performance appraisal system. Based on the assessment and analysis of the problems of the original performance appraisal system of the HIECC and after the research of the theories and methods, the author designs a new scheme of the improvement of the performance management matching the characteristic of HIECC.The thesis is composed of four parts which focusing on the following issues. Firstly, the thesis presents the performance management concepts and theories, the study methods and structure, including the performance management intension, the latest theoretical literature, principles and methods of designing. Secondly, the thesis focuses the analysis of the existing practical performance management of HIECC and reveals the problems of its performance management. In order to improve the performance management system, based on engineering companies' traits, their specialties are summarized via analyzing methods, which can be conveyed as a combination of team type and knowledge type. Then this thesis goes further to point out that present performance management mode adopted by engineering consulting companies does not fit the management over knowledge type employees. The third part is the main body of the thesis designing a new performance management system for the company. According to the design's procedure, the whole process consists of job analysis, the system of appraisal indicators, the way of performance appraisal and the program of performance management. The last part is a summary of the redesigning work of performance management and the further improving points and I have made an in-depth study of the fundamental theories on the performance management,designed the performance management on the base of combination of theory and the practical situation of HIECC company.The foregoing research results have been implemented in the HIECC and the applied experiences show that the system can solve the original appraisal problems of the performance management of the technological staff of the HIECC. The proposed system can not only help to the construction of the system of the performance management of the modern corporations and the improvement of the management level, but also help to the enhancement of the competitive ability of the corporation.