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Why Ascent HCM Performance Management System for your HR Needs?
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Boosts Employee Engagement and Productivity
Ascent performance management, formerly known as Ascent, enables a simplified way to align individual and team goals with organisational strategies. Performance management is a continuous process that is evident only at performance evaluations, but the continuous effort that occurs throughout the year truly forms the basis of the final review. Thus the Ascent software offers competency summary at different levels helping management to visualise how it is aligned to business needs.
The performance management system not only offers a more convenient approach of defining organisational & individual business objectives but also provides a structured appraisal procedure through a set of pre-built goals and development targets. Being modular, Ascent performance management can seamlessly integrate with any enterprise business processes.
Flexible Appraisal Workflow

As your organisation continues to grow in multiple businesses and locations, the organisation structure does not remain uniform and standardised. The performance management system has built in flexible workflow which can be configured based on the requirements of the organisation and the structure defined within. The simplified configuration mechanism greatly increases the speed of appraisal as reviewers at different levels are easily configured expediting the review process and increase the productivity.

Pool of Goal Library Settings
Ascent performance management system has a structured way of defining organisational as well as individual goals. The software offers a well-organised approach to group particular type of employees and then specify their objectives. The goal or objective library allows the manager/ HRs/ staff to analyse goals of employees in one screen. These goals are then get converted into targets and then into individual key result expectations for the year, which can then be measured throughout the year. The capabilities include defining goals at
- Corporate level
- Geography, department, team level
- Individual level
These goals can then be mutually agreed, signed off and tracked.
Standardised Performance Evaluation Ensures Reliability
With Ascent Performance Management Software, you can achieve your goals, organise and simplify your organisational activities to complete tasks right on time. Performance management uses a number of standards, including BSC / KRA – KPIs / Standard goal setting, to provide flexibility in aligning all your popular standard goal setting mechanisms.
These mechanisms result in higher engagement, more accurate reflections of employee performance and more opportunities to resolve issues now rather than after six months.

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Continuous Feedback Cycle, Increased Productivity

The skill development and talent management does not end with performance management. The creation of Individual Development Plans (IDPs) and succession planning to build a scalable organisation is perhaps the most important aspect of successful talent management. The performance management software has close interaction with Employee Master data, performance data, and competency mapping significantly improves the simplicity of use and speed in building the IDP. It provides mechanism to follow up the IDP and provide feedback for specific targets of the IDP to get the logical conclusion.
Centralised HR Control with In-built Alerts
Performance management software gives you the full control over employees activities and simplify tracking on employee tasks completion. With single dashboard feature for all the activities of a particular employee, it becomes easy for HRs to analyse the productivity for each employee which ultimately helps them to set appraisal workflow. This allows HRs to set rating slabs and track appraisal process. Moreover, in-built email notifications and alerts skips the possibility to miss out anything.


Unlimited Appraisal Form Templates
Over a period, Ascent has used extensive user feedback to build library of assessment forms accumulating knowledge from different organisations inside Ascent performance management system. The flexible appraisal form template covers all areas of performance evaluation diverse workforce engaged in dissimilar tasks, requiring specific performance criteria. This makes the performance management process more reliable as it covers even the smallest aspects.
Normalisation Process Via Bell-Shaped Curve

Ascent performance management software includes normalisation process to analyse employee more effectively. Several moderators can be added to the software which will then moderate the employee ratings given by themselves. The full details of the moderator can be displayed when you login to moderator admin dashboard.
The real performance evaluation is carried out while keeping these various standards in mind. A performance management system includes target vs. actual / scale based / manual rating standards, allowing for a great deal of flexibility in performance reporting. The performance is normalised using a bell-shaped curve which shows the actual and ideal distribution of work.
