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An Overview of Performance Management Development Tong Xue, Yanping Liu, Si Ha, Chaozhong Zheng, Xiaoyun Li Advances in Information Sciences and Service Sciences, Volume3, Number6, July 2011 An Overview of Performance Management Development 1Tong Xue, 2Yanping Liu, 3Si Ha, 4Chaozhong Zheng, 5Xiaoyun Li 1, First AuthorScholl of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Xuet@shenhua.cc *2,Corresponding Author Scholl of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University,Yanping Liu, wal-tv@163.com 3,4,5 Scholl of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University,, daihasi@gmail.com solo513@hotmail.com Li lixiaoyun5785@sina.com doi : 10.4156/aiss.vol3.issue6.47 Abstract Nowadays, the activities of “Performance Management” have spread very broadly in actually every part of business and management. There are numerous practitioners and researchers from very different disciplines, who are involved in exploring the different contents of performance management. In this paper, some relevant historic developments in performance measurement or performance management are reviewed. This includes various theories and frameworks of performance measurement or performance management. In addition, this paper illustrates the future outlook of performance management development. Keywords: Performance, Performance Measurement, Performance Management History, Future Work Outlook 1．． Introduction Today, the activities of ‘performance management’ have spread very broadly in every part of business and management. There are numerous practitioners and researchers from very different disciplines, who are involved in exploring different contents of performance management. For example, many researchers in financial accounting, operational research, human resource management, economic and management consultants, even journalists have engaged in academic and practical research of performance management. So far, performance management market has grown significantly and fast, there are various theories and frameworks that came out continuously. However Performance management as a rigorous discipline seems still in an early state (Thorpe & Beasley 2004). In particular, it lacks a suitably grounded framework of the non-linear management of performance. Despite significant research efforts, it does not seem that the result is even vaguely visible (Smith & Goddard 2002). For example, there are even no universal definitions for performance management (or even performance) accepted by most of the researchers. Probably the main reason for this unsatisfactory situation is the complex and highly interdisciplinary nature of performance management research, involving many fields of varying states of maturity and methodological practice as mentioned before. We launch a brief review of development history of performance measurement & management in order to facilitate other scholars to explore the essence of performance management. Going through early literatures about performance management research, a majority of people comprehend performance management as performance measurement since people began to pay attention on firms’ performance. Furthermore as mentioned there are several forces in studying performance management and we mainly examine the subjects from a point view of management science. Our literature survey has concentrated on the research from the researchers in this discipline, where the early study of performance management started from performance measurement. Only later other activities in performance management started to receive much attention. In our research, we will explicitly distinguish performance measurement and management, as it is now a common idea that performance - 374 -