Perfomance Assessement and Professional D.

Code: GES10979M

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Management

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde e bem-estar - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Trabalho decente e crescimento económico - Promover o crescimento económico sustentado, inclusivo e sustentável, emprego pleno e produtivo, e trabalho decente para todos.

Inovação infraestrutura - Construir infraestrutura resiliente, promover a industrialização inclusiva e sustentável, e fomentar a inovação.

Learning Goals

Objectives
- Description of the professional development concept.
- Description of the performance concept and its relation to competence, capacity, ability, aptitude and behavior.
- Description of different types of performance.
- Knowledge on tools of professional development.
- Knowledge on research and practice on performance appraisal and professional development.

Competences
- Assessment and decision on performance development.
- Characterization of performance development tools.
- Distinction between different performance development tools.
- Characterization of performance appraisal processes.
- Characterization of the performance appraisal role on competencies development and on professional development.
- Setting the performance development actions within the organizational strategy, within the people management operations and within organizational development initiatives.

1. Job performance - desciption, characterization and definition of the concept
2. Performance and performance evaluation - performance evaluation systems and processes
3. Performance management - relationships between performance evaluation and people management processes in organizations
4. Performance determinants
5. Historical overview of the research on performance evaluation
6. Performance management and professional development
7. Structured actions of intentional development - Coaching, mentoring, Balint groups, supervision and training
8. Multidimensional development - competences development, motivational development, ethical development, self-knowledge development, psychological capital
9. Career development and professional development - the decent work context
10. Integrating performance evaluation, professional development and people management in organizations

Teaching Methods

Some lectures, case studies, team work, problem solving, reflection. Autonomous work is expected from students.

Evaluation

a) Critical analysis of a system/process of performance evaluation/management, including its relation with professional and career development within the people management of an organization.
b) Literature review on a problem agreed with the professor

Final evaluation - exam (written)

A deep reflection on the theoretical contents and other information sources available like rules and legislation (since they are relevant) is expected from students.