Performance Management

The employee performance management process within many organizations is fragmented and inconsistent, time consuming and arduous for everyone involved, and often supported by outdated legacy systems and spreadsheets. This lack of standardization often results in reduced employee morale and engagement, ineffective communication at all levels of the organization, and severe misalignment between the workforce and the overall strategy of the business.

SumTotal Performance Management automates, standardizes, and optimizes global workforce performance processes and aligns employee goals to organizational objectives and strategies. Built on the industry’s most complete cloud talent management platform, SumTotal Performance Management enables you to:

Drive efficiencies and reduce costs by automating, standardizing, and optimizing the global review process, ratings calibration, and goal setting
Attract and retain high performers by recognizing and rewarding them commensurate with their performance
Improve organizational goal alignment by aligning and cascading employee goals to organizational objectives and strategies

Key Integration Points:

SumTotal uniquely provides native integrations from Performance Management to other core talent management processes in order to support a holistic, end-to-end talent management strategy.

360 Degree Feedback: Competency reviews by peers can be used as part of the performance evaluation
Career Development: Development goals can be added to an employee’s plan for achievement during the review period
Compensation Management: Performance ratings can be leveraged to establish pay-for-performance plans and reward good performance
Learning Management: Learning activities and courses can be assigned as a component of goal completion
Recruiting & Hiring: Performance goals for new hires can be established and aligned to organizational goals
Succession Planning: High performing employees can be nominated as successors
Workforce Management: Integrated across the SumTotal strategic HCM solution, SumTotal Workforce Management provides powerful tools to effectively manage labor rules, ensure compliance, and control labor costs and expenses
HR Management System (HRMS): As the foundation of SumTotal’s strategic HCM solution, SumTotal HR Management provides a single source of truth of workforce data for all HCM processes

To learn more about specific capabilities, features, and benefits of SumTotal Performance Management software, download and review the Performance Management product datasheet.