James W. Smither

Performance Appraisal

State of the Art in Practice
Herausgeber: Smither, James W

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A research-based guide to performance appraisal written for real-world practitioners
A timely, useful and practical collection of chapters confronting and posing solutions to some of the more thorny performance management problems and dilemmas facing HR practitioners today. Practitioners would be wise to acquire this informative volume and to use it as a tool for developing leading-edge performance management systems.
--Edward M. Mone, HR division manager/strategic planning and development, AT&T
Part of the successful SIOP (Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology) series, this book fulfills the practitioner?s long-standing need for a research-based guide to the best performance appraisal practices currently in use. Addressing an issue vital to all organizations, it introduces readers to thought and theories on the cutting-edge of their profession. Plus, it provides nuts-and-bolts guidance to a broad spectrum of timely issues such as legality, fairness, team settings, and incentive programs. A seamless fusion of state-of-the-art research and practical application, it will prove of great interest to both academics and practitioners in the field looking for ways to elevate and refine their craft.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jossey-Bass Publishers / Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 924g
• ISBN-13: 9780787909451
• ISBN-10: 0787909459
• Artikelnr.: 13805583

Autorenporträt

James W. Smither, Ph.D., is a consultant and scholar, with years of corporate HR experience. He is a professor in the Management Department at LaSalle University. A prolific writer, he is also the editor of the popular Performance Appraisal: State-of-the-Art in Practice.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword - Manual London. Preface. The Authors. THE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL
ENVIRONMENT. 1. Effective Performance Management: A Focus on Precison,
Customers, and Situational Constraints. 2. Current Legal Issues in
Performance Appraisal. 3. International Performance Measuement and
Management. 4. Performance Appraisal in a Quality Context: A New Look at an
Old Problem. 5. Games Raters Play: Politics, Strategies and Impression
Management in Performance Appraisal. METHODS OF APRAISING PERFORMANCE. 6.
Creating Performance Management Systems That Promote Perceptions of
Fairness. 7. Performance Appraisal in Team Settings. 8. Using Multisource
Feedback for Employee Development and Personnel Decisions. 9. The Advantage
and Pitfalls of Self-Assessment in Organizations. 10. Evaluating Executive
Performance. 11. Training Raters to Increase the Accuracy of Appraisals and
the Usefulness of Feedback. LINKING APPRAISALS TO THE LARGER HUMAN
PERFORMANCE SYSTEM. 12. Linking Appraisals to Individual Development and
Training. 13. Performance-Based Pay Plans. 14. Lessons Learrned: Research
Implications for Performance Appraisal and Management Practices. Name
Index. Subject Index.