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More Topics
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"More Topics" includes additional resources and documents
on performance management and award-related topics.
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Performance
Management
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Description
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Accountability Can Have Positive
Results (Winter 2001)
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Explains the positive and valuable results that individual accountability
can bring and how managers can implement positive accountability.
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Competencies That Support Effective
Performance Management (Winter 2001)
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Provides an explanation of competencies and describes which specific
competencies supervisors and team leaders need to develop to help
them manage their employee's performance.
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Developing Strategic Compensation
(fall/00)
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Describes OPM's research on seven compensation components, including
performance management issues, and some of the relationships among
them.
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Effective Performance Management: Doing
What Comes Naturally (10/97)
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Describes performance management as a systematic process including:
planning, monitoring, developing, rating, and rewarding.
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Formula for Maximizing Performance
(Summer 2001)
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Explains how organizations and employees must have both the capacity
and the commitment to perform in order to achieve good performance.
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Improving Performance Through Partnership
(2/94)
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Presents some of the key concepts and underlying philosophies of
the 1994 report by the National Partnership Council. These ideas
are the basis on which changes will be made in human resource management,
with improving Government performance as the primary goal.
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Kennedy Space Center Aims High
With Its Goal Performance Evaluation System (Winter 2001)
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Describes how the Kennedy Space Center uses an innovative interactive
software application to plan, manage, and communicate center-wide
initiatives.
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Life After the FPM (2/94)
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Describes the impact of the elimination of the Federal Personnel
Manual on performance management.
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New Opportunities to Integrate and
Invigorate (7/96)
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Summarizes a conference paper that describes the history of performance
management and how the 1995 performance management regulations brought
new opportunities for agencies to tailor their programs to fit their
culture, their mission, the way they do their work, and other systems
they use.
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OPM Approves New Agency Performance
Appraisal Systems (2/96)
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Describes differences in employee performance appraisal systems
being designed by Federal agencies.
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OPM Issues New SES Performance
Appraisal Regulations (fall/00)
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Discusses the November 2000 changes to the regulations covering
SES (Senior Executive Service) performance appraisals.
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OPM Proposes New Rules for Performance
Management (2/95)
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Outlines proposed 1995 regulations giving agencies the flexibility
needed to implement innovative performance management systems.
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Pay Progression Strategy Involves Performance
Management Issues (10/98)
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Explains how and why performance management is an integral part
of pay system design.
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Performance Management Deregulation
(8/95)
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Announces the new performance management regulations effective
September 22, 1995.
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Presidential Memos Spotlight Performance
Management (4/95)
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Outlines the messages contained in President Clinton's memo dated
March 6, 1995, addressing regulatory reinvention and the memo dated
March 22, 1995, addressing customer service standards.
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Program Updates: Trends, Developments,
and Initiatives (10/99)
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Discusses the most recent information on total compensation, performance
management, position classification, and pay and leave issues in
the Federal Government.
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Strategic Rewards (fall/00)
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Describes what strategic rewards are and how they play an important
part in attracting, managing, and retaining Federal employees.
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Update on Employee Appraisal Systems
(8/97)
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Update on the redesign of agency performance appraisal systems
as a result of the 1995 changes to the performance management regulations.
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Warranty Conditions (2/95)
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Describes the key factors that must be in place for performance
management programs to succeed.
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Conferences
and Meetings
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Description
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Back by Popular Demand - The
Strategic Compensation Conference (Spring 2001)
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Provides details about the concurrent sessions, post-conference
workshops, and registration for the August 28-30, 2001, Strategic
Compensation Conference.
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Choosing the Best Course Using
Strategic Compensation (fall/00)
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Describes why agencies must rethink the way they use compensation
to attract, retain, and reward employees.
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Compensation Conference Charts
the Course for Good Management (Fall 2001)
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Summarizes three plenary sessions presented by Office of Personnel
Management Director Kay Coles James, Ambassador Richard Haass, and
speakers from the National Association for Public Administration.
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Compensation Conference Program
Taking Shape (6/99)
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Describes some of the topics to be featured at the September 8-9,
1999 conference and provides information on how to register.
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Conference Introduces WCPS
Logo (10/99)
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Explains the meaning of the components of the OPM's new Workforce
Compensation and Performance Service (WCPS) logo and how the different
WCPS programs and units work together to support strategic compensation.
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First Annual Strategic Compensation
Conference Looks to the Future (10/99)
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Explains the focus of the first annual Strategic Compensation Conference
and provides insight on what changes the Federal Government needs
to make to support its strategic objectives and to keep up with
a competitive employment market.
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March 16, 1999, Meeting Minutes--Performance
Management and Recognition Network of the Interagency Advisory Group
(3/99)
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Agenda items included awards-related results from the National
Partnership for Reinventing Government Survey, a discussion on the
strategic use of awards, an explanation of performance-oriented
pay incentives, and a presentation on pay incentives for managers.
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OPM Director Presents PILLAR
Award at Strategic Compensation Conference (8/00)
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Describes the first recipients' award winning performance management
programs and practices.
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Organizational Change (8/95)
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Summarizes an interview with Dan Stone, Chief of the Organizational
Development (OD) Division at the Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS), U.S. Department of Agriculture that addresses the
implementation of teams. The principles he shares would apply whenever
an organization attempts to change the way it operates, including
the way it conducts its performance management programs.
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Strategic Compensation Conference
2000 Awaits You (6/00)
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Describes some of the sessions scheduled for the August 2000 conference.
Provides information on cost and registration.
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Strategic Compensation Conference
Scheduled for August 2000 (4/00)
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Provides general information about the upcoming August 2000 conference.
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Transformations '97: Performance Management
in a New Era (10/97)
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Describes the messages delivered at the Transformations '97 conference
with speakers delivering first-hand experience and practical advice.
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Transformations '98: Every Employee
an MVP (10/98)
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Summarizes the plenary sessions at the 4th annual conference on
performance management and incentive awards.
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Other
Related Topics
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Attracting, Retaining, and
Rewarding Top Performers (10/99)
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Explains how information in the Describes the perspectives of
Dr. Jay Schuster and Maggi Coil, speakers at the 1999 Strategic
Compensation Conference, on a variety of reward principles that
will enable the Federal Government to attract and retain valuable
employees.
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Change the Language To Change
the Culture (6/00)
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Describes the importance of developing and using balanced measures
to create an empowering, results-oriented, integrated, and externally
focused culture.
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Come See OPM's New Performance
Management Web Pages (2/99)
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Explains how information in the Performance Management Technical
Assistance Center (Performance Management and Incentive Awards
web pages) is organized, as well as the topics and issues available.
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Good Performance Management
Aids Retention and Productivity (4/99)
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Presents the results of three studies on retention and productivity
describing the critical factors for creating a productive work environment
and retaining good employees.
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Guidance Bulletin Cites Labor Relations
Case Law on Performance Management (12/96)
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Describes and discusses labor relations issues in performance management.
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Merit System Principles and Performance
Management (4/96)
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Explains the Federal Government's merit system and how it is supported
by employee performance management.
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OPM Places Performance at the Center
of Human Resources Management (10/97)
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Describes an OPM internal reorganization designed to focus on performance
as the core of Federal human resource management.
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OPM Plans FY2000 Study on Pass/Fail
(8/99)
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Describes OPM's plans for a pass/fail study and invites interested
agencies to participate.
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Performance-Based Organizations
(8/96)
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Describes unique features and flexibilities available to performance-based
organizations.
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Performance is the Centerpiece
of Government Reform (Summer 2001)
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Describes President Bush's initiatives, requirements for workforce
planning and restructuring, human resources flexibilities, and the
focus of the President's Management Council.
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Performance Management Clearinghouse:
Sharing Practical Information (4/00)
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Describes plans for the new performance management clearinghouse
and explains how agencies will be able to share their experiences
and best practices on this new webpage.
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President's Management Council
Committed to Performance Management (2/00)
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Summarizes how agencies can become more accountable, performance-based,
and results-oriented as covered in the "Report to the President's
Council on Managing Performance in Government."
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Promoting Innovation in Government
(Summer 2001)
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Presents the recommendations of a Toronto University study on how
to promote innovation in public organizations.
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Team Leader Guide Sees Performance Management
Role (8/98)
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Presents a brief overview of the Team Leader Guide and describes
some of the performance management functions that team leaders can
do.
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Book Reviews
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The Balanced Scorecard
by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton; Harvard Business School
Press, 1996 (8/99)
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Reviews the book, The Balanced Scorecard, and briefly explains
the balanced scorecard approach.
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Designing Performance Appraisal Systems:
Aligning Appraisals and Organizational Realities (6/94)
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Provides a comprehensive, realistic approach to designing performance
appraisal programs.
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Human Resource Champions: The Next Agenda
for Adding Value and Delivering Results (4/98)
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Looks at the challenges human resource professionals face to successfully
deliver results.
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Managing Generation X: How to Bring
Out the Best in Young Talent (12/98)
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Describes Generation X employees and what they value, and discusses
how to work with them to bring out their best performance.
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The 9 Natural Laws of Leadership
(Winter 2001)
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Reviews Dr. Warren Blank's book, The 9 Natural Laws of Leadership
and briefly explains the connection between leadership and performance
management.
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Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto
for Business Revolution (12/95)
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Presents a way of improving organizational, team, and individual
performance.
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The Strategy-Focused Organization
(Spring 2001)
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Reviews Kaplan and Norton's book, The Strategy-Focused Organization,
and briefly explains the 5 principles for achieving strategic focus
and alignment.
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Sustaining Knock Your Socks Off Service
(10/94)
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Discusses performance management basics such as: improving customer
service using goal setting, feedback, measuring performance, and
recognition and awards.
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Team Talk: Maintaining High
Performance Teams During Change (8/00)
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Summarizes characteristics high performance teams must possess
to survive organizational change as described in John P. Kotter's
book, Leading Change
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