Employees Don’t Respond To Most Performance Plans

It’s no secret that many performance-management systems aren’t working. This goes from the top to the bottom of organizations, from boards who adjust executives’ performance goals so they can receive pay that appears to have no relationship to company results, to levels lower down, where large numbers of employees are indifferent or unmotivated by the plans.

A recent Watson Wyatt survey on the effectiveness of performance-management systems shows that only three out of 10 workers really believe their company’s plan does what it’s intended to do: improve performance. Instead, most say what’s measured on those forms their supervisor completes has little to do with their actual job. Positive feedback is rare, and, even if a review is dazzling, it doesn’t translate into raises and bonuses.

By Scott Cohen

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