Contemporary Trends in Performance Management

This book highlights some of these current trends with respect to employee performance management in the current organizational climate. It discusses the trend of aligning personal goals with the organizational goals, as a strategic initiative to link employee performance with organizational goals and sheds light on the relevance of continuous feedback, as a trend, in providing direction to the employees to improve their performance. It proposes the trend of separating rewards from the pay-structure to maintain employee motivation and morale. The book propagates, upskilling and reskilling employees, as a trend, so that they get opportunities of learning and development to support good performance. It discusses the relevance of ongoing-evaluation as a trend, so that performance-rating is done for every project rather than doing it once a year. The concept of employee wellbeing is also covered in the book as this is a much talked-about trend in the recent times. Data-driven performance management, as an important trend, is also discussed in the book.The book will be useful to students, practitioners and researchers in the area of performance-management who are keen to transform the upcoming field of performance management.