• Specificity. A good system should be specific: it should provide detailed and concrete guidance to employees about what is expected of them and how they can meet these expectations.
• Identification of effective and ineffective performance. The performance management system should provide information that allows for the identification of effective and ineffective performance. That is, the system should allow for distinguishing between effective and ineffective behaviors and results, thereby also allowing for the identification of decision making, a system that classifies or ranks all levels of performance and all employees of performance