Abstract
Performance management systems are widely adopted, yet productivity outcomes remain inconsistent, even among organisations using the same established frameworks. This paper develops a prescriptive design proposition for performance management system architecture in non-listed Indonesian oil and gas state-owned enterprises. Using Constructive Research Methodology, six design criteria are derived from a PLS-SEM study of 256 mid-to-senior managers, then tested for convergence against independent design requirements drawn from the performance measurement literature. Six established frameworks are audited against these criteria using a documented, independently double-coded protocol. The resulting six-layer architecture specifies a Governance Integration Layer, a Strategy Translation Protocol, a Behavioural Activation Module, an Execution Consistency System, a Serial Execution Chain Architecture, and an Integrated Feedback and Learning Loop. Content validity was assessed through a two-round Delphi study with 15 experts. Governance integration and execution consistency are the two criteria least specified as named architectural components in the frameworks reviewed. The paper contributes a re-derivation procedure for obtaining context-specific design criteria from structural evidence, an instrumented specification of execution consistency, and governance specified as a named design layer with assigned actors, mechanisms and review cadences. As no organisation has implemented the framework, a protocol for effectiveness testing is specified for further research.