What responsibility does the manager have in these two areas?

Managers are responsible for developing, guiding, developing, and identifying talent. Managers work directly with employees and as such have top-of-mind indications of performance issues, development requirements, possible successors, and overall output.

For an effective talent management strategy to take effect, it is important that managers are given the tools, time, and training to effectively communicate, document, assess, identify, develop, and align talent.

Managers play a lead in performance management by being involve in the entire process by setting trends for the lower rung and acting as role models for the employees.

Their responsibility is to design policies which ensure an efficient management of performance in an organization and to define and act upon the core values relating to performance.

Question - Can you elaborate on the statement above - to define and act upon on the values relating to performance?