Tag: Performance Management

Let’s Improve Performance Management

Performance management and the learning convergence make a chance to prescribe and diagnose ways to develop the critical talent better. Through integrating performance and learning, the companies can be easier in identifying their trends of workforce predicatively, to target the gaps of organizational capability and to support the connections in building alignment with the business needs.

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Whether the learning and performance management are driven by the HR or learning group, both need to understand to get benefit from the convergence. Here we discuss several ways about improving performance management. Continue reading →

Performance Management in 3M

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Performance Management (PM) is the 3M Company’s name for its highly successful program of positive reinforcement to achieve specific, measurable gains in job performance. At 3M Company in Canada alone, it produced savings “in excess of $2.56 million” from January to September 1978. Furthermore, says Henry J. Marsh, personnel develop¬ment coordinator of 3M Canada, “I wouldn’t be surprised if we had a total of $4.3 million by the end of the year, including savings of $1.835 million in 1977.

Marsh began the program in 1976, a year after it was introduced by the 3M parent company in St. Paul, MN. (See “How Behavior Modification Improves Productivity at 3M,” TRAINING, October 1976.) Performance Management was developed by 3M’s Education and Training Department to help first-line supervisors increase their effective¬ness through measured results, in¬creased productivity, employee satis¬faction and personal growth. Continue reading →