Performance management goals

Linking performance management to business plans and goals.103... 

In summary, evidence from studies in the new genre of leadership theories offers insights regarding the strong impact of transformational or charismatic leaders on their followers. We believe that performance management is an excellent tool for such leaders to communicate strategic goals and sense followers needs for personal development. 

Establish a short list of priorities and monitor progress quarterly. Build into performance management plans. Communicate progress on key goals. 

Demands imposed by a highly competitive economy for more effective management performance are not going to go away. They compel safety professionals to seek to be perceived as problem solvers whose counsel is sought because of their successes as participants in achieving management goals. 

Many thousands of safety professionals are employed in organizations that use performance measurement systems such as the Balanced Score-card, Dashboards, Results-Based Management, Performance Prism, or others. Since it is important that they be perceived as members of the management team and participants in attaining management goals, they also have scorecards for safety and environmental performance. 

Management gurus have been active in exploring techniques which will improve performance of groups and individuals to achieve business goals. One approach has been termed Performance Management which considers four responses to a behaviour. These responses are termed positive, negative, punishment and extinction. ... 

Safety objectives and accountability are integrated into performance evaluation goals for directors, managers, supervisors, and all employees. 

Operation and Maintenance. Engineering and constmction firms can be contracted to take charge of treatment-plant operation and maintenance and manage other aspects necessary to meet performance goals, such as hiring and cost controls (7). Costs to the municipalities are reported to be competitive with the more traditional approach of management by municipal employees (8). 

Risk-based information provides a foundation for regulation of severe accidents. Early PRAs, with large uncertainties, indicated risk that was above or below the Safety Goals depending on containment performance. Consequently the NRC developed an Integration Plan for Closure of Severe Accident Issues (SECY-88-47) with six main elements to this plan 1) individual plant examinations (IPE), 2) containment performance improvements, 3) improved plant oper itions, 4) severe accident research, 5) external event considerations, and 6) accident management. 

Accountability is the obligation to answer for one s performance with respect to expectations, goals, and objectives. It is an important element of an effective process safety management system. To improve safety, the risk associated with human errors must be reduced. The work situation is the predominant cause of human errors and management has control over the work situation. 

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