Thank you, Madam Chair. As the Minister has pointed out, effective
performance management does integrate a number of different things. It is people talking with people, absolutely. Effective management is supported by tools like performance management tools such as this one. We really know that in doing an effective performance management system, we really need to integrate individual work planning and goal setting to make sure it aligns and supports corporate goals of the department and the Assembly overall. We look at performance objectives as well as the ability to recognize excellent work that is done by many members of the public service and also to identify developmental needs and opportunities should they arise as well.
ePerformance is a tool that will help us to standardize a lot of this, to give the guidance to managers as they are working with their staff to be able to look at this. It provides a template that does have flexibility for managers to be able to build in some of the unique needs that they may have in managing their staff, but also does provide for that standardization and for the greater efficiency that will come from having this on line. In turn, the Department of Human Resources is able to track and analyze a lot of the information that comes in, to ensure that we are aligning the supports that are in place for members of the public service with a lot of the needs that are out there, whether or not they are developmental training needs or others. Thank you very much.