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Abstract Performance management in the Nigerian oil industry is seen as the systematic process by which the agency involve its employees, as individuals and members of a group, in improving organizational effectiveness in the accomplishment of agency’s mission and goals. Employees performance management include: planning the work and setting expectations, continually monitoring performance, developing the capacity to perform, periodically rating performance in a summary fashion and rewarding good performance. The ultimate, according to the employees’ perception, is that people would work so hard without the commensurate compensation in terms of promotion, pay raise, praise, promise, recognition or reward of any kind. This gap on the part of the management by non-commensurate compensation is the issue that is making people to doubt whether there are experts in the departments to critically analyze performance because it is obvious that high performance should attract good motivation from the management. Key words: Performance Management, Agency’s Mission and Goals, Employees Perception