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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2018
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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2018

by Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, Robert S. Kaplan, Daniel Kahneman, Roger L. Martin
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
5h 10m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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The Performance Management Revolution

by Peter Cappelli and Anna Tavis

WHEN BRIAN JENSEN TOLD HIS AUDIENCE of HR executives that Colorcon wasn’t bothering with annual reviews anymore, they were appalled. This was in 2002, during his tenure as the drugmaker’s head of global human resources. In his presentation at the Wharton School, Jensen explained that Colorcon had found a more effective way of reinforcing desired behaviors and managing performance: Supervisors were giving people instant feedback, tying it to individuals’ own goals, and handing out small weekly bonuses to employees they saw doing good things.

Back then the idea of abandoning the traditional appraisal process—and all that followed from it—seemed heretical. But now, by some estimates, ...

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ISBN: 9781633693074