How to Take Action for Successful Performance Management

Preface

This book is intended for students and practitioners who work actively in developing, using, and assessing performance management systems for the construction of successfully functioning organizational practices. Organizational management personnel will hold many beliefs about how the organization for which they work functions. Such beliefs are constructed over time, tested out, revised, and fine-tuned on the basis of their experiences. Where beliefs are sound, intended action outcomes will be achieved, and when beliefs are unfounded, actions are likely to have unintended outcomes. Pragmatic construction is a philosophy that provides a basis for constructing and making explicit the beliefs that underlie management action. When a sound ...