institute for employment studies

improving people management

Reward and performance management

This part of our work covers the strategies, systems, practices and processes that organisations use to develop, manage and reward employee performance. We work with the topical issues in the reward and performance management world, combining perspectives from the latest research with the everyday experiences of organisations.

Our consultancy and research provide the opportunity to learn from academic research and apply this in your organisational setting to your problems in reward and performance management. Evidence-based interventions must surely be the way forward especially in these more cost conscious times.

IES article:

Performance management: Fine intentions, People Management, September 2011

IES Principal Associates Wendy Hirsh and Duncan Brown discuss whether HR departments are setting themselves a formidable agenda to deliver. This article is based on current IES Network research into Performance Management.

This area of our work has these subthemes:

• reward and performance management strategy
• design of all the key areas of reward management
• reward and performance management process design and the facilitation of change
• evaluating the effectiveness of reward and performance management systems
• reward and recognition
• performance management, motivation and engagement

IES at work with employers

examples of IES work on reward and performance management

Who to contact

• email Peter Reilly or call +44(0)20 7104 2073