Performance management : concepts, skills, and exercises, second edition

Performance management : concepts, skills, and exercises, second edition / Robert L. Cardy and Brian Leonard.

This comprehensive text provides an engaging examination of the entire process of performance management. It balances concepts with practical skill-based exercises, and gives readers both an understanding of performance management and the ability to manage performance. An online Instructor's Ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cardy, Robert L., 1955-, Leonard, Brian, 1976- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©2011.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Employees > Rating of.
Performance > Evaluation.
Performance standards.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Organizational Behavior.
Employees > Rating of
Performance > Evaluation
Performance standards
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 The Performance Management Process: An Overview; 2 Organizational Context; Opening Example: Just Lay Low; Overview Section; Strategic Context; Horizontal Context; Administrative Context; Opening Example Revisited; Application Section; Basic Skill Builder 2.1: Placing Value on Values; Basic Skill Builder 2.2: Creating Core Values for You Inc; Basic Skill Builder 2.3: Giving Lip Service to Core Values; Basic Skill Builder 2.4: Business-Level Strategies: Your Brand.
  • Basic Skill Builder 2.5: Balancing the Balanced ScorecardBasic Skill Builder 2.6: Horizontal Context Revisited; Advanced Skill Builder 2.1: Standing Out in a Crowd; Advanced Skill Builder 2.2: Rank 'em and Yank 'em; Advanced Skill Builder 2.3: Fire 'em All; Advanced Skill Builder 2.4: The Personality Filter; Advanced Skill Builder 2.5: Vertical Integration of Employee Morale; Advanced Skill Builder 2.6: Values that Guide Decision Making; 3 Performance; Opening Example: This Company Is Not a Democracy!; Overview Section; Job Analysis; Criteria; Opening Example Revisited; Application Section.
  • Basic Skill Builder 3.1: When the Customer Is Truly #1Basic Skill Builder 3.2: Teaching Your Dog to C-I-T; Basic Skill Builder 3.3: Power to the People; Basic Skill Builder 3.4: A Governmental Value Equation; Basic Skill Builder 3.5: The Serious Business of Playing Restaurant Roles; Basic Skill Builder 3.6: Where the Values Rubber Meets the Road; Advanced Skill Builder 3.1: Let's Get Behavioral; Advanced Skill Builder 3.2: Outcomes Versus Behaviors at WidgetCo; Advanced Skill Builder 3.3: Grilling Different Ultimate Criteria; Advanced Skill Builder 3.4: When You're on a Role, Just Go with It.
  • Advanced Skill Builder 3.5: Beware the Source of the DomainAdvanced Skill Builder 3.6: Is Money the Best Motivator?; 4 Diagnosis; Opening Example: Let's Just Skip It; Overview Section; Observation; Causes of Performance; Opening Example Revisited; Application Section; Basic Skill Builder 4.1: It Pays to Pay Attention in Class; Basic Skill Builder 4.2: Making Sense of Observations; Basic Skill Builder 4.3: Using the Observation Cube in the Classroom; Basic Skill Builder 4.4: Documenting the Observation Cube; Basic Skill Builder 4.5: The Observation Cube ... Now What?
  • Basic Skill Builder 4.6: Multiple Options for ObserversAdvanced Skill Builder 4.1: Understanding System Factors; Advanced Skill Builder 4.2: Ability to Measure Ability; Advanced Skill Builder 4.3: People versus Systems; Advanced Skill Builder 4.4: Peak Performance Mind Tricks; Advanced Skill Builder 4.5: Flexibility at the Cost of Observing Performance; Advanced Skill Builder 4.6: Putting the Observation Cube to Work; 5 Evaluation; Opening Example: Are You Feeling Lucky? Well, Are Ya?; Overview Section; Performance Evaluation: What Is It?; Common Performance Characteristics; Common Standards.

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