BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Graduate School THE IMPLEMENTATION OF STRATEGIC PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN BATANGAS CITY GOVERNMENT: INPUT TO POLICY DEVELOPMENT MARY ANN E. ANTENOR Master in Public Administration Abstract The focus of performance management in the country is not new. Public sectors especially local government unit has aspired to achieve high performance through performance management systems, procedures, and practices. This paper explores new propositions that will assist organizations in strengthening or enhancing the performance framework within individual and organizational context. The study aimed to determine the Strategic Performance Management System’s Implementation (SPMS) of Batangas City Government. Descriptive method was used with semi-structured survey questionnaires and interview as data gathering instruments. The respondents were the 324 permanent employees working at the City Government of Batangas who were chosen using stratified proportionate random sampling. Frequency count, percentage, weighted mean, analysis of variance and Pearson’s (r) were used as statistical tools to interpret the data. This study concluded that overall, the employees were in agreement with all the items regarding the components of SPMS, however, moderate problems were still identified. The distribution of respondents has various frequency and percentage. The respondent’s description of the implementation of SPMS in the City Government of Batangas was all implemented. The implementation of SPMS in the City Government of Batangas proved to have a significant difference in terms of their department; however, it proved none in terms of their age, sex, educational attainment and length of service. Generally, the City Government of Batangas encountered the different problems in the implementation of SPMS to a moderate extent. On the other hand, it was interpreted as to a great extent the problems including lack of readiness of employees in SPMS’s comments and recommendations, limited involvement of employees in planning, and inadequate understanding about SPMS. Finally, the proposed input to policy development was conceptualized with the objective of enhancing the implementation of SPMS in the City Government of Batangas. Keywords: Performance Management System, Strategic Performance Management, organizational performance, individual performance, policy development, system’s implementation