Performance Management Process: Considerations and Options

Abstract

Many organizations today are utilizing various forms of on-line performance management systems that require various computerized screens or data input fields to be completed, opposed to a paper-pencil type of implementation. The advantages of an on-line system include speed of completion, speed of review and approval, consistency of inputting fields, data compilation, and data analysis. The disadvantages include limitations on fields or screens that may force comments into template fields that do not accurately capture or represent the entire performance that occurred; limitations on creativity to record performance inputs; as well as the perception that an on-line system often minimizes dialogue and meaningful face-to-face exchange between a manager and a subordinate team member.