Managing performance is what line managers do and performance management is supposed to help them do it. Performance management is managing the business. It should be a powerful means of ensuring that the organization's strategic goals are achieved. It should contribute to the achievement of culture change and be integrated with other key HR activities, especially human capital management, talent management, learning and development and reward management. Thus performance management helps to achieve horizontal integration and the ‘bundling’ of HR practices so that they are interrelated and therefore complement and reinforce each other. An effective system of performance management can play an important part in increasing levels of employee engagement.