Best Practices: Evaluating Performance

Preface

What has proven to be the best way to assess an employee’s performance? How can you turn around an underperformer? How do you know when an employee is ready to be promoted? What issues should be considered before firing an employee? Is there any way to make the performance review process less burdensome?

In this book, we distill the wisdom of some of the best minds in the field of performance management to help you evaluate employees and manage their work more effectively. The language is simple and the design colorful to make the information easy to grasp.

Quizzes help you assess your knowledge of performance-management issues. Case files show how companies have tackled tough performance issues. Sidebars give you a big-picture look ...