Barend van Zadelhoff May 9, 2013:

I would go for 'either' 'or' (see below)

As it will be clear from the context, this is about 'performance management'

Kitty Brussaard May 9, 2013:

@Barend I agree with you that the phases of planning, monitoring and assessment are basically inherent to the performance management review cycle. Nevertheless, I think I would still specify them if I were the translator, just to be on the safe side :-)

Barend van Zadelhoff May 9, 2013:

Exactly what I was thinking on further reflection.

Michael Beijer May 9, 2013:

@Barend: I think I agree. You can either translate it as:

'Introducing/impementing a performance management review cycle'

or

'Implementing/introducing a review cycle comprising planning, progress monitoring and assessment.'

Barend van Zadelhoff May 9, 2013:

Kitty I think that 'van plannen, voortgangscontrole en beoordelen' doesn't need to be translated if you use "performance management review cycle" since planning, check-in and assessment are inherent in this cycle, don't you agree?

That is:

"Introducing/implementing a performance management review cycle"

would do.

Barend van Zadelhoff May 9, 2013:

As I understand it on the basis of a number of translations I did in this field.
This pertains to a series of 'gesprekken' between the manager and individual employees.
In short:

'plannen' (planning): they discuss and make agreements about what is going to be done, goals are set, duties are defined, that kind of thing

'voortgangscontrole' (check-in): they discuss to what extent goals have been met, duties have been fulfilled so far

'beoordelen' (assessment) : they discuss the employee's performance with respect to the extent in which the goals have been met and duties have been fulfilled etc during the relevant performance management cycle

Have a look at this picture:

http://www.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http://finntrack.co.uk/im...

Bracha de Man (asker) May 9, 2013:

You are all so very helpful. Thank you. I am under pressure to finish the translation, so I will decide a bit later.

Here is a larger chunk of the relevant context, maybe it will help clarify the issue.

Inrichting van competentie en performance management
XXXX heeft in tientallen organisaties ervaring opgedaan met het inrichten van competentie en performance management in de vorm van een praktische aanpak van sturen op gedrag, resultaat en ontwikkeling. Wij helpen bij:

• Ontwikkelen van visie op resultaat
• Opstellen van functieprofielen
• Invoeren van een eenduidige competentietaal
• Invoeren van een gesprekscyclus van plannen, voortgangscontrole en beoordelen.
• Inzicht verkrijgen in competenties, talenten en onderliggende persoonseigenschappen
• Trainen en coachen van managers, HR-professionals en medewerkers in kader van competentie en performance management

Michael Beijer May 9, 2013:

perhaps, something like: Implementing/introducing a review cycle comprising planning, progress monitoring and assessment.

Kitty Brussaard May 9, 2013:

@Michael I agree with you that "interview cycle" would be safest without further context. At the same time, having dealt with quite of number of texts about performance management and as a former HR professional, I cannot help feeling that '(performance management) review cycle' is probably the most accurate term here.

Natasha Ziada (X) May 9, 2013:

@ Michael In this case, with the context + topic area (HRM) provided, I would say it's safe to say 'review cycle' is the correct interpretation. But you're right, we should never assume anything in translating :)

Even though 'interview cycle' is one of the possible translations of the term 'gesprekscyclus', I don't think it fits well in this case. Google yields more results pointing towards interview cycles = continuous job interview (including one of your example sentences) than otherwise:
https://uwaterloo.ca/co-operative-education/get-hired/interv...

Here in Australia the commonly used expression with anything performance-related is review: http://www.swinburne.edu.au/corporate/hr/pdr/home.htm

I have never heard of 'p&d talks'. The link you provided is a Dutch link and might not be 100% reliable.

Michael Beijer May 9, 2013:

I think I would translate it something like: Invoeren van een gesprekscyclus van plannen, voortgangscontrole en beoordelen.

=

Implementing/introducing an interview cycle comprising planning, progress monitoring and assessment.

Michael Beijer May 9, 2013:

@Natasha: A 'gesprekscyclus' means an 'interview cycle', or a 'round of discussions', as mentioned by Alexander.

Bracha has said that 'The text in general describes how the particular consultancy firm can help companies organize their competence and performance management.' However, just from the snippet ' Invoeren van een *gesprekscyclus* van plannen, voortgangscontrole en beoordelen', I wouldn't dare to say much more than 'interview cycle', without further context.

Interview cycle doesn't only mean interviews as in job interviews.

See also: 'Performance and Development Interviews / Performance and Development Talks' (http://medewerkers.leidenuniv.nl/p-en-o/info/p-d-interview.h... )

I think Kitty is probably also right. I think another option would be: 'Performance and Development Interviews' / 'Performance and Development Talks' or performance and development cycle.