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Performance Management


This PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT guidance relates to the management of employee performance (i.e., planning, developing, monitoring, rating, and rewarding employee contributions), rather than performance-based or performance-oriented approaches to managing, measuring, and accounting for agency program performance. While these concepts can and should be linked and integrated, they remain distinct in some respects, particularly with regard to establishing individual accountability and dealing with poor performers. We also provide information that specifically addresses performance management for the Senior Executive Service.

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Implementing Performance Management Competencies
For Managers And Supervisors

A series of five articles describing the OPM Federal Competency Assessment Tool - Management (FCAT-M) which identified and developed a set of competencies for executives, managers, and supervisors. [More]...