quot ISO 14031.5 Environmental Management Environmental Performance Evaluation quot . Working draft.

The Committee expressed its commitment to the organizational goal of institutionalizing a performance based management culture and recognized PAS as one of the key management tools to achieve that goal.

An effective performance management system was essential for improving both individual and organizational performance, and the PAS was one element of such a system.

Both managers and staff had recognized the value of the overall concepts of work planning, ongoing monitoring, feedback and appraisal and their potential contribution to the development of a performance based management culture, and had appreciated the fact that the PAS was based on pre established performance expectations and not ex post facto evaluation, as in the past.

The other key area in improving railway performance is management.

A central element of its public information activities has been the promotion and refinement of a culture of evaluation and performance management.

Introduce performance monitoring mechanisms for the areas of client servicing and records management so that work can be appropriately managed.

It fosters a culture of transparency and accountability and of striving to improve the performance of UNIDO's activities.

B. Performance management

(c) In particular, the management culture of the Organization must recognize performance, achievement and learning, and mechanisms to ensure managerial accountability must be in place

12. Welcomes the movement of the Department of Public Information towards a new evaluation culture of increased performance management, based on, inter alia, an annual programme impact review, as well as feedback from Member States, where appropriate

Management often plans progress through the concept of increase of an indicator, but without quantifying the increase rate to be considered an achievement.

Managers should help staff to develop performance improvement plans, where necessary, but continued underperformance should result in appropriate sanctions.

This idea of capacity as a platform for performance is central to the rationale for capacity assessment (although the term used here is capacity for performance, the criteria based approach can be applied to other dimensions of performance, such as quality, as well).

Organization and management culture

The system of results based management proposed by the Inspectors in Recommendation 10 above requires the development of a management information system that encompasses all aspects of RBM, including performance management and knowledge sharing.

57. Among the various aspects of performance management covered by the PAS, the linguistic performance and continued development of linguistic skills of United Nations staff members are considered critical.

In Malta, accountability for gender mainstreaming is ensured through the performance management contract of senior officials in the public service and the performance management programme of other officers.

10. In addition to greatly simplifying the administrative aspects, revision of PAS aims to enhance managerial accountability in managing the performance and contributing to the development of their staff, as well as demonstrating gender and cross cultural responsiveness.

3. The impact and effectiveness of that new approach to performance management depended heavily on the quality and commitment of supervisors and managers.

The effective use of evaluation findings is also ensured in keeping with the requirements of results based management.

Performance management improvements in the Electronic Performance Appraisal System

(a) The establishment of a Management Performance Board to assess the performance of senior managers

It should be noted that there is a strong relationship between the categories of EPI identified below and those being developed for internal environmental management purposes by the International Standards Organisation (ISO ISO 14031 Environmental Performance Evaluation).

The report indicated that discussions had been held with the United States Office of Personnel Management during which it had been noted that the application of performance pay was contingent on certification of the department's performance management system.

A few countries have introduced performance contracting as a way of holding managers accountable.

The analytical features of the data warehouse system will improve the performance of the management of the Fund's investments.

The system has the basic objective of creating a fair, equitable, transparent and measurable system of performance management in support of a results based culture that recognizes and rewards excellent performance while adequately addressing underperformance.

(a) A system of performance awards or bonuses can be implemented only in an environment where the management culture of the Organization optimizes performance at all levels individual, team and organizational

A. Performance management

4. As noted in the Secretary General s report, the PAS was based on performance management principles recommended by the International Civil Service Commission and had been developed in consultation with managers and the Staff Management Coordination Committee.

3. PAS, which is based on performance management principles recommended for the United Nations common system by the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), is one element of the Secretary General s overall efforts to introduce into the Secretariat a results based culture of performance.

(a) The increase of 50,000 under Executive direction and management relates to the inward redeployment of one P 5 from the Outreach Division in exchange for a P 4 post to strengthen the technical capacity of the Department to meet demands of a new culture of self evaluation and performance management

These principles have been challenged by the reform movements widely characterized as representing new public management , which advocate core principles of flexibility and performance, as well as efficiency.

Increasing the overall economic performance of the economy, including the efficiency and management of the energy sector

The Commission noted that although official certification of the performance management systems by the United States Office of Personnel Management was a requirement, many decisions concerning the management of pay for performance systems, including the size of the payout, were the responsibility of the individual department.

The Committee commends management for implementing the performance appraisal system (PAS) as an effective management tool encouraging dialogue between supervisors and staff.

The Government Performance Project reaction to this difficulty was to draw on existing areas of consensus in the public management literature, as well as enlist the advice of a broad panel of experts for each management system.

This is a time for reflection on the Security Council's performance.

(a) Intersessional departures for 2005 and related matters

RBM constituted a means of improving the relevance, effectiveness and impact of the Organization's activities.

Recognizing the differing organizational strategies and cultures prevailing in the common system, and considering that a flexible approach to performance management would be desirable,

Representing a myriad of cultures, its citizens provide a working model of harmony and integration despite the diversity of their affiliations, and have achieved memorable successes at country and individual level in cultural and economic fields.

It is possible to construe the analysis as a measure of management performance, and some have done so.

Improving the performance of senior management