True or False?

The research reveals some interesting insights about performance management that might surprise you.

Everybody's doing it.
True. Performance management has moved beyond the finance department to all areas of the organization.

Bigger is better.
False. Often large-scale deployments of performance management are unwieldy and not as effective as starting smaller and expanding as efforts prove successful.

If you build it, they will come.
False. Employee resistance to performance measurement is a big obstacle in many companies, weakening the effectiveness of even the best performance management programs.

The devil is in the details.
True. Many companies struggle with the most critical component of a performance management system – the data.

The more the merrier.
False. Systems from multiple vendors are often the downfall of a successful deployment when the information is hard to integrate.

You get what you pay for.
True. Investment in analytic software dramatically increases the success rate of performance management systems.

It's all about the money.
False. The primary benefit companies hope to receive from their performance management efforts is alignment.