Is this the end for appraisals or just the start of a new performance appreciation initiative?

Performance management means very different things to different people. For some, performance management is the actual appraisal process, the forms and the ratings; for others it is a visible insight into the culture of the organisation and how it measures and develops performance.

At 3gHR we see performance management as a concept that’s at the very heart of what we believe in – and what we do.

It may be obvious to say that the performance of the people in any business will have a direct impact on the performance of the business overall; so you would think that Managers would consider performance management one of most important things a business does. Yet it often remains labelled an “HR process”. Arguably it is neither.

Performance management has become overloaded