Class Presentations

This last week we gave a brief presentation to the class that introduced our research topic idea. My research paper is on Success in the Workplace: Utilizing Training and Performance Reviews. With my paper, I try to understand the effects that businesses have who utilize performance reviews coupled with training. I found it interesting that in all of my articles not one presented an alternative solution to performance reviews. I believe that it is because everyone would agree that performance reviews and training can create positive outcomes. The problem with these is usually found in incompetent managers. Lack of manager skills, particularly those found with communication, prohibit a company from excelling in employee performance. Employees must be coached, guided, given expectations, held to those expectations, all while given the ability to carry it out for themselves. For managers to lead employees, they must be trained and able.

As far as the class presentations go... I found most of them very interesting and I would like to have heard more from the students. A few students, I felt, had too broad of a topic and didn't really understand what they had gathered from their research. They were vague and could not answer classmate questions very well. This sometimes made me laugh a bit, seeing them stumble to make up an answer, but it also made me a bit frustrated because the questions asked were good and legit questions most of the time.