Performance Management

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of the other major problems.

Performance management and review can be an aid to this project, by analysing the various options and solutions and deciding on the best course of action. Each of the three main problems may be divided into a list containing various sub problems, which create the overall problems. Each of these problems must be solved by prioritising in order of importance, in order to produce the most effective solution to the project.

Performance management has been defined as “a strategic and integrated approach to delivering sustained success to organisations by improving the performance of the people who work in them and by developing the capabilities of teams and individual contributors: (Armstrong and Baron 1998). Another definition however is that performance management is the systematic design, collection, analysis and review of information. In order to manage there is a need to establish and quantify what may be managed and how.

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Some of these problems are as follows:

 There are not enough targets to attain.
 There tends to be too many indicators.
 There is a lethargic reporting style, however the reporting systems tend to be loose.

In the case of this project for the local council there needs to be a hierarchy of objectives, these must range from corporate to individual objectives.

The corporate objectives for the local council may be as follows:

1. To design, build and tender for the centre within the budget allocated and within any time frame allocated by the capital provider.
2. To allocate appropriate funds from the local authority budget to enable the project ...

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