Performance Management Practices: It’s not an HR ‘Thing’ – Its ‘The’ way of managing business

 This is the first in a series of three articles on Performance Management Practices prepared for The Stabroek Business by the Mersu Caribbean Consulting Group, a Trinidad and Tobago-based Image Management, Public Relations and Business Consulting Group 

By Averil Williams   

The current global recession has forced companies worldwide; to take a step back and utilize their analytical lenses to relook the way performance management is handled, and to enhance the methods that are used in conducting business. Business leaders are aware, this approach will deliver achievement of the desired performance that is needed to sustain yields in productivity and human performance. When married with factors that drive results this technique ensures strategic objectives are realized. The result is an effective system instituted to manage performance and implement change.

Have you ever heard or uttered this question before? “Why can’t Human Resource (HR) solve the problem of performance management?” The truth is, performance management is not an HR problem; it is an organizational problem. As an Organization Development Analyst and Performance Improvement Consultant, I’ve been auditing