How to Ensure Strong Employee Performance Management

Much of the information in this topic is adapted from the books Field Guide to Leadership and Supervision in Business and
Field Guide to Leadership and Supervision for Nonprofit Staff.
Employee performance management is sometimes referred to as people management.

Sections of This Topic Include

Additional Perspectives on Employee Performance Management
Other Performance Management Applications

(Although the term “performance” is conventionally used in literature
about management, some people might have an averse reaction to that term. For
them, they might use the term “effectiveness” instead.)

Strongly Suggested Pre-Reading

The traditional approach to performance management, whether applied to an organization,
team or employee, is increasingly criticized as being obsolete, invalid and
unsuitable to today’s organizations and workforce. Consequently, the performance
management process is being transformed by many progressive organizations. This
should be understood by anyone wanting to understand and apply the process.
Performance
Management: Traditional and Progressive Approaches

Guidelines for Implementing and Evaluating
the Process

There are some standard guidelines that can ensure the success of any implementation
of any performance management process. Be sure to read and follow those guidelines,
especially if this is your first implementation of a comprehensive process.
The guidelines also can be useful if you are trying to improve a process that
you have already implemented.
Performance
Management for any Application: Guidelines for Implementation and Evaluation

Phases in Employee Performance Management
Process

Establishing
Performance Goals
Developing
Performance Plans
Giving
and Receiving Feedback
Evaluating
Performance (Performance Appraisals)
Rewarding
Performance
Addressing
Performance Problems
Performance
Improvement/Development Plans
Firing
Employees

Additional Perspectives on Employee Performance
Management

Performance
Plan (repeated from “Basic Overview”)
Overview of Employee
Performance Management
How to Maximize Your Performance Appraisal Score

Managing Day-to-Day Employee Performance
5 Performance Management Tasks That are Often Overlooked
Overcoming the Obstacles to “Clutch” Performance
Employee
Coaching: 3 Guidelines to Make It Work
Training
Every Employee to be CEO
Ten
Ways to Help Your Employees Make a Little Magic
Enthusiastic
Employees: Do You Have Them?
Can
You Fix My Employees With Training?
Performance
Management is Not about the Forms

Other Performance Management Applications

Organizational
Performance Management
Performance
Management for any Application
Team
Performance Management

Learn More in the Library’s Blogs Related to Employee Performance Management

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post in the blog. The blogs also links to numerous free related resources.

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