Susan Heathfield at About.com is talking about performance management today. According to Susan – “Peformance Management includes the entire relationship you have with the people you employ.”

I think she’s right. Older definitions of peformance management primarily included performance reviews, and indeed the heritage of SuccessFactors is grounded in them. But over time, we have, together with our customers, realized that in order to achieve true performance management we must extend the capabilites of our solution to other strategic aspects of the employee relationship. Compensation Planning, Development Planning and Goal Management are other aspects of WPM that Susan highlights.

A quote:

 Performance management is the process of creating a work environment or setting in which people are enabled to perform to the best of their abilities. Performance management is a whole work system that begins when a job is defined as needed and expectations are clearly communicated to the employee. It ends when an employee leaves your organization.

Read the whole article:
Performance Management: You Get What You Request and Reward