As U.S. employers continue to practice outdated employee performance management policies, other countries are engaging in policies that are more highly related to market performance, according to a new study by the Institute for Corporate Productivity.

The study reveals U.S. respondents still practice performance management techniques that have led to frustration and a loss of focus; however, Russia and Brazil are implementing new policies bearing in mind past mistakes.

U.S. respondents are less likely to practice performance management across each organizational level. Instead, U.S. respondents tend to focus on performance management to individual contributor-level employees, and they are 35 percent less likely to carry out performance management with executives, even though that has a high correlation with market performance.