A new proposal addresses “inflated” evaluations for federal employees and the failure to “materially differentiate” between performance levels, OPM said.

The plan to institute a forced or “standardized” distribution of performance ratings upon the federal workforce has survived ...

The recently issued mandate, “Performance Management for Federal Employees,” requires agencies to “provide a firm benchmark towards which employees must aim their performance.” It’s on point but fails ...

Why do we spend millions on performance management systems that everyone—managers, employees, and executives—openly admits are broken? The answer is uncomfortable but simple. We’ve designed these ...

I’ve worked in the fields of resilience, performance psychology and leadership science for over 20 years. In that time, my team and I have heard leaders ask one question over and over again. It’s one ...

Human resources leaders have been trying to design the best performance management program for decades. But it's been impossible to achieve because they often assume uniform needs where there is ...

To fix performance management systems, C. Allen Gorman, Ph.D., industrial-organizational psychologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Collat School of Business, suggests implementing a ...

The University of Colorado (CU) University and Classified Staff Performance Management Program (Program) is a system-wide framework submitted on behalf of the entire University system for approval by ...

One critical question that I had contended with for sometime as a public service institutional reformer is, why it has been so very difficult to institute performance-oriented values and systems (PMS) ...

It’s time to stop managing imaginary employees and start engineering real human performance. Why do we spend millions on performance management systems that everyone—managers, employees, and ...