The study of Leadership Based Performance Management Strategy, Drivers and Interventions

Essence of leadership in organization is achieving performance excellence in all spheres of organizational activities. leadership is the engine of performance management. leadership can be understood as a process of influencing in the form and way that is sensitive to human and organizational factors with an objective to maximize benefits of internal and external stake holders. In context of performance management, leadership is defined as a process that maximizes performance of employees and organizations in all types of environments and situations by (1) sharply aligning objectives of performance management strategies with business strategies (2) nurturing leadership at all levels of organization and (3) developing, integrating, executing and evaluating six performance management strategies to deliver the best of the human and organizational results. The strategy of leadership based management embodies two prime interventions: first building leadership competencies is the prime strategy of leadership based performance management. This is achieved through conceptualization and application of organization specific leadership development interventions and drivers. The second strategy of leadership based performance management is leaders adopting a set of behavioral and managerial strategies that help institutionalizing performance management strategies in the areas of reward, career, culture, competency mapping, team and measurement based management.