I will analyze my current employer's performance management system for this case study. Out of the 14 characteristics of an ideal system, my employer's performance management system has only nine. That is fairly good being that perfect performance management systems are rare. The nine characteristics that are present is strategic congruence, context congruence, thoroughness, practicality, meaningfulness, specificity, identification of effective and ineffective performance, reliability, and ethicality. That leaves validity, acceptability and fairness, inclusiveness, openness, correctability, and standardization. There is one characteristic that is not present at all and one that is barely present. The characteristic that is not present at all is correctability. There is no appeals process in place. It should be because we are all human and everyone makes mistakes especially when it comes to human judgement. Therefore, when an employee feel there was an error they should be able to appeal. The characteristic that is barely present is validity. Sometimes I think employees are evaluated on things that are out of their control. An example is when the flow of work from another employee jeopardizes the next person. In my opinion, the lack of these characteristics definitely leaves an impact on the employees that results in high turnover rates. The one characteristic that is clearly present in our system is thoroughness. All employees are evaluated in our system, all the way up the organizational chart. Feedback is provided for everyone whether it is positive or negative feedback. I think that the presence of this characteristic has a positive impact on the effectiveness of the system. All employees understands that they have to go through the performance appraisal whether they have done well or