QUESTION $3(20$ Marks$)$

Performance Management System is an authoritative framework for managing employee performance that includes a

policy framework as well as a basis relating to all aspects and elements in the performance cycle, including performance

planning and agreement, performance monitoring, review and control, performance appraisal and moderating, and

managing the outcome of appraisals. It gives guidelines on how everything to do with performance management is to be

done, from goal setting and deciding how to measure accomplishments to providing regular assessments. Critically

discuss the phases of performance management and the importance of performance management in the public sector.