These systems are used within an organization to provide employees with a clear understanding of job expectations, feedback about job performance and recommendations about what is needed to improve performance.
The learning needs of a company are determined by the strategy of the business and how that strategy is translated to performance requirements. Performance management systems can provide managers with insights into how well employees are reaching individual goals and therefore contributing to the unit and overall corporate goals. Learning organizations can use these same systems to measure their own success, and also look for places where there are gaps that they can fill.
These systems are an important element of measuring Personal Outcomes, a dimension in the Measure quadrant of the CorpU 12 Dimensions of Learning Excellence. They also impact the Align quadrant as a source of information about what need to be addressed by the learning organization.


