Hello Pals,

A few days ago, I remember one of our team mates to have asked on the concept of Bell Curve and here is my brief answer to the same..

A bell curve is a theoretical dsitribution of scores across a given population. Applied to PMS, this means that the performance of the majority of a given population will tend to gravitate towards the center i.e., average while the extremes would comprise of either the poor performers or excellent ones. This simply means that you can't have 100% stars in a team; there has to be the so-so (average) guys and low performers. The curve is mostly used as a control mechanism.

Hope it helps ; )

Jigar

The 5 Points system is more of a Goal setting process as i understand it. It does not constitute the Performance Management system as it does nto cover the aspects of review and reports involved in any PMS.

1. Understand the benefit of your goals

2. Derive what actions/activites give you the Benefit?

3. Segement into smaller goals.

4. define the activities to achieve your goal

5. Monitor the results through the course.

Vijay