This writing assignment requires you to analyze an organization’s approach to managing performance.  It can be your own organization or if you prefer you may instead conduct the analysis on a past position you have held or another person’s job via a thorough interview process and data gathering. 

Your analysis may identify key indications of mis-aligned processes, and thus you can develop recommendations for future organizational improvement via strategic Human Resource Management practices.  It is not necessary to identify a specific shortcoming of the organization’s management of performance.  Based on your analysis, you may develop and propose an HRM-based innovation using the six step performance management process to take advantage of present and/or future opportunities that you forecast in your (or other’s) job/position. 

The purpose of this analysis is to provide an opportunity to apply what you have read and has been discussed in class to the real world, linking theory and practice.