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What Is Performance Management?

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From "Performance Management - A Briefcase Book" by Robert Bacal (McGraw-Hill)

Performance management is an ongoing communication process, undertaken in partnership, between an employee and his or her

immediate supervisor that involves establishing clear expectations and understanding about:

the essential job functions the employee is expected to do
how the employee's job contributes to the goals of the organization
what "doing the job well" means in concrete terms
how employee and supervisor will work together to sustain, improve, or build on existing employee performance
how job performance will be measured
indentifying barriers to performance and removing them

Performance management includes a number of different parts or phases.