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Background Early January, 2026, we had concluded first stage of employee annual performance appraisal at departmental level. We now awaited feedback from directorate who are in charge of moderation of performance appraisal feedback scores awarded to each employee by the departmental head. The second stage (moderation) considers the overall performance of the organization, the moderation committee ‘opinion’ about the department among other ‘things.’ In late February, 2026, we received a communication rejecting appraisal results of all employees in the department plus departmental head’s recommendations. One comment stood out in the communication; “the department has not presented any dashboard to demonstrate individual employee’s productivity, improvements on performance measures and so on to justify promotions or any rewards’. I then asked myself two questions. If the agreed performance measures are all captured in an online Human Resource Management System application (HRMS) depending