8.1 Senior Management Dissatisfied with Their Capacity to Implement the PMS
The participants reveal that after a period of engagement in the process the senior management team aredissatisfied with the progress that they have made in the implementation of the performance management system in senior secondary schools. Evidence of this are in comments such as the following: “Implementation is really slow” (CCB); “Implementation is not moving” (MMA); “There is no implementation” (BBD); and “Not much implementation is happening” (ZZD). There is concern about paperwork that is not being completed properly. In some schools not all staff have completed their performance development plans, and in others where they have been completed, there have been little or no follow through. Observation and coaching are not being undertaken
as fully as they should have been. In some schools, the PMS has even been suspended for periods of time.