Why specialist Employee Performance Management (EPM) software?

Organisations typically use cumbersome home-grown or traditional paper-based systems to administer staff appraisals and complete Employee Performance Management. These labour intensive systems are overly complex, time consuming to use and inconsistently applied. By contrast, Covalent's online employee performance management system transforms your staff appraisals process to reduce the time, and thus costs, involved, making the exercise much more worthwhile for all involved.

Home-grown system weaknesses

Lengthens the appraisals cycle and often results in missed deadlines.
Complicated to manage the associated workflow, especially where multiple appraisers are involved.
Difficult to consolidate results to identify skill gaps and investigate competency patterns.

Packaged software strengths

Smoother, more flexible process tailored to each job role.
Faster appraisal reviews with more comprehensive supporting information.
Engages staff more actively, with close alignment to organisational goals.
Captures crucial business intelligence to support HR decision-making.