PER 0902 Employee Performance – Guardian Tracking System
Purpose
Employees are the most valuable resource of the Harford County Sheriff's Office. The Guardian Tracking System provides supervisors with a comprehensive tool for recognizing employee performance as well as the means to document employee shortcomings in a transparent manner. Understanding that its employees deserve recognition for exceptional performance and the opportunity to correct shortcomings, the Harford County Sheriff's Office will utilize the Guardian Tracking System. Supervisors will base employee performance appraisals on a comprehensive review and evaluation of all entries made in the Guardian System for the employees during the evaluation period. In addition to serving as a basis for employee performance appraisals, to the extent that it illuminates repeated negative performance or behavior, Guardian Tracking can serve as an employee early warning system. Supervisors should make every effort to remediate patterns of repeated poor performance or behavior before seeking adverse employment action against the employee.
Summary
The Harford County Sheriff's Office will base employee performance appraisals on a comprehensive review and evaluation of all entries made in the Guardian Tracking System for an employee during the evaluation period. The Guardian Tracking System should be used to document positive performance as well as to notify employees of performance deemed unacceptable. The use of the Guardian Tracking System as the performance appraisal rating tool will also provide data for making personnel decisions involving compensation, training, development, and discipline or termination.
