The Balme Library is one of the renowned research libraries in Africa and the principal library of the University of Ghana (Aguinis, 2009). The library consists of six departments, employs over 50 people and has over 100,000 books, 500 microfilms, CDs and cassettes as well as access to numerous electronic resources (Balme Library, University of Ghana, 2009). The library, like other organizations, faced resource challenges and implemented many strategies, including a performance management system (Aguinis, 2009). According to Aguinis (2009), six elements are necessary in a performance management system: prerequisites, planning, execution, evaluation, review, and renewal and reconstruction of performance. However, the performance management system they implemented lacked several elements necessary for the program's success. For this discussion, the prerequisites component will be evaluated based on how the Balme Library implemented this aspect, how this affected its performance management system, and how to improve the implementation of the prerequisites.Implementing the PrerequisitesIt There are two main components to the prerequisites which include knowledge of the strategic objectives of the organization and knowledge of the jobs evaluated in a performance management system (Aguinis, 2009). The first is to set strategic objectives, which allow the organization to clearly define its purpose, thereby establishing similar objectives downward until each employee has individual objectives aligned with the organization (Aguinis, 2009) . Second, there is job analysis where the job tasks are defined and understood so that job level success criteria can be developed and how they relate to the organization...... middle of document ......ConclusionA good performance management system encourages management to take responsibility for ensuring that its employees achieve the organization's objectives and goals (Gary, 2004). Furthermore, according to Bowes (2009), there is strong evidence that shows that when good performance management systems are in place and implemented effectively, revenue, shareholder value, employee satisfaction and interest investors will increase. Therefore, although Blame Library's performance management system needs improvement in several areas, it is in their best interest to continue improving their performance management system starting with their prerequisites. Once they have analyzed tasks and developed job descriptions for all library jobs, they will be in a good position to begin working on the other features of a good performance management system..