Abstract:

This guide presents an eight-step process for developing employee performance plans that are aligned with and support company goals.  It provides guidelines for writing performance elements and standards that meet regulatory requirements but also maximize the capability that performance plans have for focusing employee efforts on achieving organizational and group goals. The methods presented here are designed to develop elements and standards that measure employees and work unit accomplishments rather than develop other measures that are often used in appraising performance, such as behaviors or competencies.  The main focus is to measure accomplishments.