The Complete Guide to Performance Appraisal supplies you with the quickest, surest, and most up-to-date methods available for making your appraisal system outstanding. Whether you want to get the maximum impact from your existing system, or you want to create and implement an ideal system from scratch, The Complete Guide to Performance Appraisal is your one-stop, how-to-do-it resource.
Unlike many "systems" books, this guide is notable for its personal, forthright writing style. Author Dick Grote has worked with performance appraisal techniques for more than 25 years, and he tells you frankly which methods have been successful and which have flopped. This comprehensive book will help you set job objectives and measure the truly important aspects of an individual's performance; prepare managers for the rigors of the appraisal interview, with scripts and proven interviewing techniques; create forms and procedures that satisfy your organization's needs - and comply with legal requirements; gain support for your system throughout the organization; set up a training program for both appraisers and appraisees - a critical step for long-term success.
Chapters include:
- Performance Appraisal: The State of the Art
- The Performance Management System
- Approaches to Appraisal
- Objectives, Accountabilities, and Standards
- Skills, Behaviors, and Competencies
- How to Write a Fair Performance Appraisal
- How to Conduct an Appraisal Discussion
- Optimizing Your Existing Performance Appraisal System
- Building Management SupportDesigning the Performance Appraisal System
- Implementing a Performance Appraisal System
- Creating a Performance Appraisal Training Program
- Employee Development
- Pay and Performance Appraisal
- Performance Appraisal and the Law
- Emerging Trends in Performance Appraisal
