Performance | 4 Effective Performance Management Practices that managers should adopt

The appraisal is dead. Long live the catch-up!

Many of us HR Professionals will be familiar with this phrase and will have heard of aspirational organisations making the bold move from annual appraisals to online software to manage their performance management practices.

However, in our experience, many organisations fail to enable effective performance management practices using software. Why? Because with any software tool, it can only act as an enabler for change. It requires the right practices to be embedded within the organisation to truly be effective.

We commissioned Dr Nuno da Camara to carry out a research review on what actually works in Performance Management. The research found 8 key evidence-based management practices that have been shown to increase employee performance within a range of organisations. Four of these activities are completely within the control of the manager and four relate more closely to organisational practice and processes. In this blog, we will cover the effective performance management practices that managers can adopt to improve employee performance. All eight practices are explained in the full research paper that you can download here: download the research paper here.