{"id":1672,"date":"2007-05-15T10:32:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T09:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/progmanager.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/15\/working-effectively-in-a-performance-management-framework\/"},"modified":"2007-05-15T10:32:16","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T09:32:16","slug":"working-effectively-in-a-performance-management-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2007\/05\/15\/working-effectively-in-a-performance-management-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Effectively in a Performance Management Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frontline police called on the Government to reverse the target-driven culture that has forced them to make “ludicrous” decisions such as arresting a child for throwing cream buns.<\/font><\/p>\n

The Police Federation annual conference in Blackpool will debate whether judging officers purely on how many arrests, cautions or on-the-spot fines they can deliver is making a mockery of the criminal justice system.<\/font><\/p>\n

A not untypical story of modern life – but are ‘targets’ really the problem?<\/p>\n

Would dropping targets help?<\/p>\n

Or do we choose to blame the targets – when it is really poor management in a target driven organisation that is to blame?<\/p>\n

How can managers prevent this type of gaming the system and ensure that support progress rather than act as a catalyst to stupidity?<\/p>\n

What would you have done as the Officer in Charge – when you saw that arrest on the record books?<\/p>\n

What would you have done before hand to ensure that the officer would have thought twice before adding this to their ‘portfolio of success’.<\/p>\n

Happy to put up a small prize for the most useful response!<\/p>\n