The purpose of this study was to identifi; and examine the implementation of performancernmanagement in public secondan; schools of Addis Ababa city administration. Presentingrneight basic questions regarding to what extent performance management is implemented inrnthe secondary school collected information and data needed for the study. The Samplernpopulations of the study were drawn from 10 government secondary schools in all sub-cities.rnDescriptive survey method was employed for the study. Simple random sampling techniquernw.as used to select respondents. Primary data were collected by administering questionnaire torn10 principals, 10 deputy principals, and 200 teachers that were selected from the governmentrnsecondary schools of Addis Ababa. The data was analyzed by using ANO VA-test and chisquarerntest. The result revealed that performance management was implemented to somernextent in the secondan; schools of Addis Ababa. According to the findings the major problemsrnthat negatively impacted on the implementation of performance management were lack ofrnneed-based training programs, low commitment of the school management, little participationrnof teachers in the school performance management, lack of performance-result-basedrnpromotion scheme, and insufficient institutional capacity and subjectivih; in performancernreviewing. To redress the problem, the respondents recognized result-oriented performancernmanagement system as the best practice that contains both result and process. Therefore, itrnwas recommended that trainings and developments should be need-based and usingrncontinuous coaching is important, the Education Bureau should improve institutional andrnmanagerial capacity of school managers and administrators,teachers' involvement in goalrnsetting of the schools has to be enhanced. In addition school managers have to develop thernculture of setting agreeable performance measurement standards with the teacher andrnproviding a timely feedback for teachers during the performance reviewing period