Performance Management Systems and Strategies

PERFORMANCE ETHICS

Abuse of performance management systems is a violation of ethics. It not only indicates poor focus on corporate governance, but also creates an unhealthy work environment, where every employee feels demoralized. Reduced performance and productivity, and employees' dissension even ultimately weakens the organizational competitive strength. It is necessary to ensure transparency in performance evaluation process, and communicate to employees, whose interests get prejudiced for any performance aligned decisions like promotions, transfer, salary raise or increments, training, etc. Some organizations even ask the poor performers to quit. Violation of ethics in performance management systems may not always be deliberate for the managers. ...