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Resources
Title	Description
Alternative Pay Progression Strategies: Broadbanding Applications	Reviews basic aspects of compensation and broadbanding; presents three categories of pay progression strategies and discusses the affects of combining the strategies.
Performance Management Program Design Handbook	Designed to assist agency personnel, managers, employees, and their representatives work through the redesign of their employee performance management programs.

 

General Performance Management
Title	Description
Assigning Retention Credit in a RIF	Looks at how to assign credit when an employee does not have three ratings of record within the last four years or has equivalent ratings of record.
Designing Performance Appraisal Programs	This article discusses the performance appraisal design strategies of three agencies.
DOT Evaluates Its Performance Management System	Presents techniques used to evaluate performance management system.
Effective Performance Management: Doing What Comes Naturally	Describes performance management as a systematic process including: planning, monitoring, developing, rating, and rewarding.
Evaluating Performance Appraisal Programs	Provides guidance for conducting ongoing program evaluation.
The Fable of the Beekeepers and Their Bees	Describes the advantages of measuring and rewarding results versus activities.
Gainsharing Links Performance Management Processes	Describes how gainsharing can link performance management processes.
Improving Performance Through Partnership	Presents some of the key concepts and underlying philosophies of the 1994 report by the National Partnership Council. These ideas are the basis on which changes will be made in human resource management, with improving Government performance as the primary goal.
Life After the FPM	Describes the impact of the elimination of the Federal Personnel Manual on performance management.
Managing for Performance	Summarizes an interview with Christopher Mihm, Assistant Director for Federal Management and Workforce Issues at the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) and major contributor to the GAO reports: "Managing for Results: Experiences Abroad Suggest Insights for Federal Management Reforms" and "Managing for Results: State Experiences Provide Insights for Federal Management Reforms."
New Opportunities to Integrate and Invigorate	Summarizes a conference paper that describes the history of performance management and how the 1995 performance management regulations brought new opportunities for agencies to tailor their programs to fit their culture, their mission, the way they do their work, and other systems they use.
New Rules for Crediting Performance in a Reduction in Force	Provides an overview of the published final regulations on reduction in force (RIF) and performance management that place greater emphasis on actual performance when crediting performance in a RIF and give agencies greater flexibility when awarding additional retention service credit based on performance.
OPM Approves New Agency Performance Appraisal Systems	Describes differences in employee performance appraisal systems being designed by Federal agencies.
OPM Proposes New Rules for Performance Management	Outlines proposed 1995 regulations giving agencies the flexibility needed to implement innovative performance management systems.
OPM Showcases New Initiatives on Poor Performers	Through a coordinated series of initiatives, a multi-media set of tools have been developed to use in informing and motivating managers and supervisors to take action against poor performers.
Organizational Change	Summarizes an interview with Dan Stone, Chief of the Organizational Development (OD) Division at the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), U.S. Department of Agriculture that addresses the implementation of teams. The principles he shares would apply whenever an organization attempts to change the way it operates, including the way it conducts its performance management programs.
Pay Progression Strategy Involves Performance Management Issues	Explains how and why performance management is an integral part of pay system design.
Performance Management Deregulation	Announces the new performance management regulations effective September 22, 1995.
Presidential Memos Spotlight Performance Management	Outlines the messages contained in President Clinton's memo dated March 6, 1995, addressing regulatory reinvention and the memo dated March 22, 1995, addressing customer service standards.
Proposed RIF Regs Address Retention Credit Based on Performance	Describes changes to reduction in force (RIF) regulations proposed by OPM and published in the Federal Register on February 4, 1997.
Transformations '97: Performance Management in a New Era	Describes the messages delivered at the Transformations '97 conference with speakers delivering first-hand experience and practical advice.
Transformations '98: Every Employee an MVP	Summarizes the plenary sessions at the 4th annual conference on performance management and incentive awards.
Update on Employee Appraisal Systems	Update on the redesign of agency performance appraisal systems as a result of the 1995 changes to the performance management regulations.
Warranty Conditions	Describes the key factors that must be in place for performance management programs to succeed.
What to Avoid When Writing Standards	Defines "retention" standards, discusses the basic requirements for these standards, and highlights some of the things you should avoid when writing them.

 

Other Related Topics
Title	Description
DOD: Designing Appraisal Programs Under a Flexible System	Summarizes how DOD components have used the flexibility in the DOD appraisal system to design programs to meet their individual needs.
Guidance Bulletin Cites Labor Relations Case Law on Performance Management	Describes and discusses labor relations issues in performance management.
Merit System Principles and Performance Management	Explains the Federal Government's merit system and how it is supported by employee performance management.
OPM Places Performance at the Center of Human Resources Management	Describes an OPM internal reorganization designed to focus on performance as the core of Federal human resource management.
Performance-Based Organizations	Describes unique features and flexibilities available to performance-based organizations.
Team Leader Guide Sees Performance Management Role	Presents a brief overview of the Team Leader Guide and describes some of the performance management functions that team leaders can do.

 

Book Reviews
Title	Description
Designing Performance Appraisal Systems: Aligning Appraisals and Organizational Realities	Provides a comprehensive, realistic approach to designing performance appraisal programs.
Human Resource Champions: The Next Agenda for Adding Value and Delivering Results	Looks at the challenges human resource professionals face to successfully deliver results.
Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution	Presents a way of improving organizational, team, and individual performance.
Sustaining Knock Your Socks Off Service	Discusses performance management basics such as: improving customer service using goal setting, feedback, measuring performance, and recognition and awards.