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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Skills Programme

Reference: SK6288F7C80A30C

Performance management is an instrument that managers at all levels use to monitor and measure employees work. The aim of performance management is to create an environment where people can perform to the best of their abilities and produce the highest-quality work most efficiently and effectively. The purpose of this programme is to equip learners with the skills and knowledge to develop and apply the financial dimensions of performance management. This will enable learners to ensure performance management requirements are correctly catered for during policy decision-making and strategic decision-making processes.

  • Implement performance management systems and mechanisms in a South African municipality as required by the local government legislative framework.
  • Write and develop performance management concepts for the effective measurement of municipal strategic and financial performance.
  • Develop and identify the critical areas of a performance management agreement to be used as a form of contract of employment for a municipal staff member
  • Identify and establish institutional arrangements required for performance management in a municipality
  • Apply performance management concepts to municipal service delivery
  • Contextualising different approaches to and theories of monitoring and evaluation in a particular organisation.
  • Demonstrating understanding of appropriate research design and methodology for monitoring and evaluating an organisation or programme in a specific context.
  • Designing a monitoring and evaluation plan for a specific context.
  • Collecting appropriate data aligned to specific indicators in a monitoring and evaluation plan.
  • Analysing and interpreting collated data.
  • Presenting the findings and recommendations of a monitoring and evaluation project or plan.
  • Communication at Level 4.
  • Mathematical Literacy at Level 4.

HODs, supervisors, CFOs, Accountants and senior management, monitoring and evaluation specialists, NGOs, monitoring & evaluation practitioners and  learners involved in monitoring & evaluation.

  • Implement performance management systems and mechanisms in a South African municipality as required by the local government legislative framework.
  • Write and develop performance management concepts for the effective measurement of municipal strategic and financial performance.
  • Develop and identify the critical areas of a performance management agreement to be used as a form of contract of employment for a municipal staff member
  • Identify and establish institutional arrangements required for performance management in a municipality
  • Apply performance management concepts to municipal service delivery
  • Contextualising different approaches to and theories of monitoring and evaluation in a particular organisation.
  • Demonstrating understanding of appropriate research design and methodology for monitoring and evaluating an organisation or programme in a specific context.
  • Designing a monitoring and evaluation plan for a specific context.
  • Collecting appropriate data aligned to specific indicators in a monitoring and evaluation plan.
  • Analysing and interpreting collated data.
  • Presenting the findings and recommendations of a monitoring and evaluation project or plan.
Title Description
Qualification Id116341 & 337059
Nqf Level6
Credits27
Duration3 Days
EndorsementLGSETA
Delivery StrategyFace to face / Online