This article is about a qualitative research undertaken in senior secondary schools in Botswana. The popularity of qualitative research arises from the opportunity it provides to researchers to be able to interact with and gather data directly from their research participants to understand a phenomenon from their perspectives (Gay et al.,2009). Not much research has been done to understand school senior managers’ experience about the implementation of performance management systems, hence the researcher found the qualitative approach most suitable for an in-depth study of their experience of this phenomenon.