Technology’s Role in the Process: How Does Technology Facilitate the Different Components of the Performance Management Process?
Aguinis (2007) proposed that the process of performance management involves six steps: prerequisites, performance planning, performance execution, performance assessment, performance review, and performance renewal and recontracting. In general, technology offers opportunities to execute these steps in an efficient and effective manner. Existing human resource information technology (HRIT) systems may currently provide some of the options discussed below, although few would offer all. In general, it appears that managerial self-service programs, which allow managers access to databases of employee records and performance ...