This is a process of annual reviews that all tutors must undertake on a 1-to-1 basis by achieving a number of set targets throughout the year. These targets have increased significantly in the last few years and many questions have been asked on how attainable they actually are. It clearly states in the ‘Performance Management’ procedure that the targets set must follow strict guidelines:
Tutors should not agree to unrealistic targets as they will be held directly accountable when those targets haven’t been met. Dudley College uses these PMR scores to justify pay increments and also to justify whether to keep a member of staff should they be put at risk of redundancy.
I have adult classes. Many have attendance issues due to offspring and/or work commitments. This is out of my control so how am I supposed to ensure that their attendance is good? I feel it’s a PMR target that’s not achievable (the A in SMART). If it is achieved, it’s more luck than judgement so is unfair to set as a target.
This may have cropped up before as an issue, so I apologise if all has been said on the matter but I’m just typing up the related comment on my PMR and am not sure whether to put it as green or amber. I put green last time and my manager disagreed with it so I feel putting green again would be futile. Should I just bite the bullet and put amber?
This is probably one of the biggest issues cross college and an issue that we have raised a number of times with both management and Personnel. The stance that SMT/Personnel have on this issue is that as long as you have tried everything within your powers to get a specific student to attend (phone calls / letters / ILP updates / meetings) then line managers cannot give you less than a ‘good’ for your PMR. That said, if your attendance stats are significantly low then they can’t give you an ‘outstanding’ either. The key is to ensure that you are logging all your actions and making sure you articulate this clearly in your PMR comments box. No an ideal response, but it’s the one we’ve been given!