Performance Management Transformation Lessons Learned and Next Steps

No other business process has endured such great debate as performance management. Viewed as a critical cornerstone for organizational alignment, it is often met with anxiety and confusion by both managers and employees. For over 50 years, strategies such as cascading goals and employee ranking have tried to add value to performance management with little success. But in recent years, new ideas have transformed the field into a less formal process designed to encourage employee behaviors that actually drive performance.

Performance Management Transformation takes a practical approach to the current and future state of performance management across the organizational landscape. Case studies from Toyota, Patagonia, Medtronic, GoGo Inflight, and AbbVie, alongside research and commentary by thought leaders in the field, showcase how organizations are taking control and redesigning their performance management processes to address their specific organizational goals, strategies, needs, and preferences.

Elaine D. Pulakos has spent her career working with organizations to design and implement talent management systems and processes in the areas of staffing and assessment, performance management, leadership development, and succession management. She is a recognized talent management thought leader, especially in the areas of performance management reform and individual, team, and organizational agility. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, for which she has also served as President. Currently, she is CEO of PDRI.

Mariangela Battista is Vice President of Global Talent Management for IGT, PLC, a global lottery and gaming organization. Throughout her career as an I/O practitioner she has led the strategic design and implementation of global talent management processes including performance management, succession, assessments, and engagement. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology and the Academy of Management and is the current Chair of the Friday Group, a New York-based consortium of Industrial-Organizational Psychologists.