Legal Risks in Performance Management Systems

The Legal Risks of Performance Management

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The method through which specific organization measures and increases performance in its workforce is known as performance management. Since there are diverse ways of measuring and increasing the performance, the organization can use it to monitor performance on an individual, organizational as well as on department level. Though performance management is commonly used to define an individual performance, it has other standard features that comprise of performance reviews, recognition and appreciation programs and also peer feedback. During the process of measuring and monitoring performance on employees, there are legal risks that are involved. However, these risks may contrast. According to Noe (2017), the performance management systems that are acceptable and fair to the employees are considered to be legally sound.

The performance reviews of the…