For the third concept application paper, analyze the effectiveness of the performance management system
within your current organization; or, propose a design for a performance management system for the
organization you hope to launch. Your analysis can focus on motivation as it applies to the work unit
(department, team) to which you belong, or to the organization as a whole (if a small organization or start-up).
Your focal question is: How well does the performance management system support the decisions and
actions most critical to creating value in the organization?
The material in the readings and our class discussions to date should play an important role in your paper. In
reporting your analysis, you dont have to provide a general review of concepts or give definitions (e.g.,
providing a definition of a hybrid structure, or differentiator versus vehicle, or employee voice, or extrinsic
motivation) assume I know these. Rather, you should apply course concepts to your specific example. You
may draw on additional sources for information in preparing your analysis, but it is not necessary or required. If
you do use outside sources, please cite them and provide the source (in a footnote or reference list).
As you begin to lay out your analysis, provide sufficient detail to explain and justify your claims. Only provide
information/examples that enable you to establish your point(s). Do not provide details that, although
interesting, are not needed to assert a particular claim. Please be mindful of this you can easily lose
substantial space with unnecessary information edit strategically. You may use tables or appendices to
organize and summarize information (which do not count against the 4-page limit). Presumably, if you are
including these materials they must be relevant to your analysis and should be referenced in your paper.
