Contemporary Trends in Performance Management

This book is a Machine-Generated Literature Overview of performance management.This book highlights some of the 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 asthis is a much talked-about trend in the recent times. 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. The auto-summaries have been generated by a recursive clustering algorithm via the Dimensions Auto-summarizer by Digital Science handled by Subject Matter Experts and the editor(s) of this book. The editor(s) of this book selected which SN content should be auto-summarized and decided its order of appearance. Please be aware that these are extractive auto-summaries, which consist of original sentences, but are not representative of its original paper, since we do not show the full length of the publication. Please note that only published SN content is represented here, and that machine-generated books are still at an experimental stage.