Prior to beginning this discussion, read Chapter 2 from the course text and the article How Millennials Forced GE to Scrap Performance Reviews (Links to an external site.). This article is about the journey from traditional to contemporary performance feedback at General Electric, a leader in business management strategies. This article describes a new focus away from the traditional/competitive “rank and yank” performance review method during the days of former CEO, Jack Welch, to a more defined focus on modern day employees with different needs and expectations.

Choose an organization with which you are familiar; for example, your place of work, or a local community organization or business (retailer or service provider) and describe the alignment between the organization’s mission and goals and the existing performance management system. How do the organization’s goals relate to individual employee goals? Based on your readings related to the relationship between organizational goals and employee goals, how would you answer this question?

Your initial response must be a minimum of 250 words.