Performance management is changing. Adapt your approach along with
it.
For decades, performance management has been seen as an annual chore by
managers and HR departments alike. But this process is changing, and
there are ways to make it more effective at all levels of your
organization.
If you read nothing else on performance management in your organization,
read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard
Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help
you make your process more adaptable, conduct better feedback
conversations, and encourage the growth of your employees.
This book will inspire you to:
- Learn where current performance management processes are falling short
- Overcome organizational bias to evaluate performance fairly
- Sculpt employees' jobs to meet their skill sets and interests
- Boost collaboration by aligning goals across functions
- Use people analytics ethically and transparently
- Help your people identify and use their strengths
This collection of articles includes "The Performance Management
Revolution," by Peter Cappelli and Anna Tavis; "Reinventing Performance
Management," by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall; "Getting
360-Degree Feedback Right," by Maury A. Peiperl; "The Set-Up-to-Fail
Syndrome," by Jean-François Manzoni and Jean-Louis Barsoux; "Job
Sculpting: The Art of Retaining Your Best People," by Timothy Butler and
James Waldroop; "Performance Management Shouldn't Kill Collaboration,"
by Heidi K. Gardner and Ivan Matviak; "The Happy Tracked Employee," by
Ben Waber; "Don't Let Metrics Undermine Your Business," by Michael
Harris and Bill Tayler; "Numbers Take Us Only So Far," by Maxine
Williams; "Managers Can't Do It All," by Diane Gherson and Lynda
Gratton; and "Creating Sustainable Performance," by Gretchen Spreitzer
and Christine Porath.
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