AHRI – NEW PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES

The Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) partnered with academics from the University of Sydney Business School to examine current staff performance management practices in Australian organisations and gauge continuity and change during COVID and plans for change in practice use in 2022-23.

The study draws on survey data obtained in May 2021 from 163 AHRI HR professionals

The sudden, sustained and repeated shifts to lockdown have set the stage for a profound shakeout in traditional performance management practice. While traditional practices still predominate there are distinct signs of imminent change.

It remains to be seen how rapid and comprehensive the change will be but if the results of this study are any guide, the main vehicles of change are likely to be organisations for which the newer, less hierarchical and more inclusive practices are a more natural fit.

The disruption brought about by COVID may have created conditions for ‘new performance management’ practices: less bureaucracy, less paperwork, less retrospectivity, less ritual, less judgmentalism, and less hierarchy; more inclusivity, more problem-solving, more forward planning, more developmentalism, and more technology-enabled data management.

 

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https://www.ahri.com.au/media/xefnrvre/performance-mgmt-report-2021-unisyd.pdf