As employee safety, health and well-being are productivity predictors, when discussing about personal and individual performance it is important not to overlook the potential threat of being over-motivated, over-engaged and over-attached to work, to the point of disrupting one’s personal functionality.
In a business world governed by benchmarks, targets and objectives, it is essential not to lose sight of a potentially valuable resource: the personal initiative. With efficacy in mind, individual performance is scripted, in order to keep a valid account of employee progress. However, this has proven to be detrimental to generating innovative ideas which could benefit the overall performance.
For the report Performance Management in 2013, The KPI Institute conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with practitioners, academics and consultants from 18 countries, who offered a detailed image on the state of Performance Management as a discipline.
Peter Bintu, Supervisor Corporate Performance Reporting at the Uganda Revenue Authority, Ugandawas one of the practitioners that The KPI Institute interviewed.
For the report Performance Management in 2013, The KPI Institute conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with practitioners, academics and consultants from 18 countries, who offered a detailed image of Performance Management as a discipline in the analyzed year.
An important editorial rule followed in the development of the content is that a discipline can only evolve through the combined efforts of practitioners, academics and consultants. Eve Blackall, Group Director at Smart Accounting, Australia was one of the consultants that The KPI Institute interviewed.
As data based decision making is at the core of better management practices today, tools such as scorecards and dashboards can assist with providing critical business data for decision making. Dashboards are operational tools used to illustrate the company’s performance in its most relevant areas. In their recent study on changing practices of financial departments and management audit in businesses (2011), Bearing Point and the Association Nationale des Directeurs Financiers et de Contrôle de Gestion (DFCG) identified several trends in using dashboards across organizations.