U.S. Office of Personnel Management - Ensuring the Federal Government has an effective civilian workforce

"By aligning employee performance appraisal plans with executive performance agreements and directly communicating agreement goals to employees, supervisors can drive home to employees just how their performance impacts organizational goals." Office of Personnel Management

The Results-Oriented Performance Culture system focuses on having a diverse, results-oriented, high-performing workforce, as well as a performance management system that effectively plans, monitors, develops, rates, and rewards employee performance.

• Definition
• Standard
• Critical Success Factors
• Applicable Merit System Principles

Definition

A system that promotes a diverse, high-performing workforce by implementing and maintaining effective performance management systems and awards programs.

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Standard

The agency has a diverse, results-oriented, high-performing workforce and a performance management system that differentiates between high and low levels of performance and links individual/team/unit performance to organizational goals and desired results effectively.

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Critical Success Factors

The Results-Oriented Performance Culture system is comprised of the following critical success factors that work together to create a diverse, results-oriented, high performance workforce:

• Communication
• Performance Appraisal
• Awards
• Pay-for-Performance
• Diversity Management
• Labor/Management Relations.

Each critical success factor has several key elements that indicate effectiveness and are linked to suggested indicators that identify how well the agency is doing relative to key elements.

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Applicable Merit System Principles

The following merit system principles are especially relevant to the Results-Oriented Performance Culture system (5 U.S.C. 2301):

• All employees and applicants for employment should receive fair and equitable treatment in all aspects of personnel management without regard to political affiliation, race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age, or handicapping condition, and with proper regard for their privacy and constitutional rights. (5 U.S.C. 2301(b)(2))
• Equal pay should be provided for work of equal value, with appropriate consideration of both national and local rates paid by employers in the private sector, and appropriate incentives and recognition should be provided for excellence in performance. (5 U.S.C. 2301(b)(3))
• Employees should be retained on the basis of adequacy of their performance, inadequate performance should be corrected, and employees should be separated who cannot or will not improve their performance to meet required standards. (5 U.S.C. 2301(b)(6))

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