Performance
Management
Process
Overview
Prerequisites
Performance Planning
Performance Execution
Performance Assessment
Performance Review
Performance Renewal and
Recontracting
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Prerequisites
A. Knowledge of the
organization’s mission
and strategic goals
B. Knowledge of the job in
question
A. Knowledge of
mission and
strategic goals
Strategic planning
• Purpose or reason for
organization’s existence
• Where organization is going
• Organizational goals
• Strategies for attaining goals
Mission and Goals
Cascade effect
throughout organization
Organization Unit
Employee
B. Knowledge of the
job
Job analysis of key components
• Activities
• Tasks
• Products
• Services
• Processes
B. Knowledge of the job
(continued)
KSAs required to do the job
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Abilities
Job Description
Job duties
KSAs
Working conditions
Generic Job Descriptions
Occupational Informational
Network (O*Net)
[Link]
Job analysis
Use a variety of tools
• Interviews
• Observation
• Questionnaires (available on
Internet)
Job analysis follow-up
All incumbents should
• review information and
• provide feedback
re:
• Task
Frequency
Criticality
Performance
Planning:
Results
Key accountabilities
Specific objectives
Performance standards
Key
Accountabilities
Broad areas of a job for which
the employee is responsible
for producing results
Specific Objectives
Statements of outcomes
Important
Measurable
Performance
Standards
“Yardstick” to evaluate how well
employees have achieved each
objective
Information on acceptable and
unacceptable performance,
such as
quality
quantity
cost
time
Performance
Planning:
Behaviors
How a job is done
Performance Planning:
Competencies
Measurable clusters of KSAs
Critical in determining how
results will be achieved
Performance Planning:
Development Plan
Areas for improvement
Goals to be achieved in
each area of improvement
Performance Execution:
Employee Responsibilities
Commitment to goal
achievement
Ongoing requests for feedback
and coaching
Communication with
supervisor
Collecting and
sharing performance
data
Preparing for performance
Performance Execution:
Manager Responsibilities
Observation and documentation
Updates
Feedback
Resources
Reinforcement
Performance Assessment
Manager assessment
Self-assessment
Other sources (e.g., peers,
customers, etc.)
Multiple Assessments Are
Necessary
Increase employee ownership
Increase commitment
Provide information
Ensure mutual understanding
Performance Review
Overview of Appraisal
Meeting
Past
• Behaviors and results
Present
• Compensation to be received
Future
• New goals and development
plans
Six Steps for Conducting
Productive Performance
Reviews
1. Identify what the employee has
done well and poorly
2. Solicit feedback
3. Discuss the implications
of changing behaviors
Six Steps for Conducting
Productive Performance
Reviews
4. Explain how skills used in past
achievements can help
overcome any performance
problems
5. Agree on an action plan
6. Set a follow-up meeting and
agree on behaviors,
actions, attitudes to be
evaluated
Performance Renewal and
Recontracting
Same as/different from Performance
Planning
• Uses insights and information from
previous phases
• Cycle begins again
Performance Management
Process Summary: Key
Points
Ongoing process
Each component is important
If one is implemented poorly,
whole system suffers
Links between components must
be clear
Quick Review
Prerequisites
Performance Planning
Performance Execution
Performance Assessment
Performance Review
Performance Renewal and
Recontracting