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Come See OPM's Performance Management Web Pages

The Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) web site now offers a variety of resources for performance managers. Personnelists, managers, team leaders, and employees will find the performance management web pages contain information to help them design, manage, evaluate, and just better understand employee performance management programs. We've organized the web pages into four "chapters" that make it easy to find what you need.

• Performance Management Overview
• What's New
• Resources by Topics
• Additional Resources

Performance Management Overview contains:

• a definition of performance management, with an explanation of the integrated processes of planning, monitoring, developing, rating, and rewarding performance;
• a chronology of employee performance management in the Federal Government, including dates and developments; and
• a document that sets the stage for performance management today by fleshing out its history.

What's New contains:

• the most recent issue of this newsletter, both as a complete issue and as separate articles; and
• announcements of workshops, conferences, or new products we are offering.

Resources by Topics includes all our papers, articles, and other issuances listed by the following topics:

• planning (e.g., elements and standards),
• monitoring (e.g., multi-rater feedback),
• developing (e.g., coaching and training),
• rating (e.g., pass/fail appraisal),
• rewarding (e.g., incentives and recognition),
• measuring (e.g., results rather than activities),
• teams (e.g., managing team performance), and
• other related topics (e.g., designing programs).

Additional Resources includes:

• an extensive list of frequently asked questions and answers on all areas of employee performance management;
• a guide to legal citations including links to specific passages of the United States Code and the Code of Federal Regulations; and
• links to related sites.

Become familiar with this valuable resource. Take time to visit us at http://www.opm.gov/perform.

Originally published on February 1999