Get Rid
May 11th, 2004 | By admin | Category: Natural and Homeopathic|
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Get Rid of the Performance Review! $11.99 The performance review. It is one of the most insidious, most damaging, and yet most ubiquitous of corporate activities. We all hate it. And yet nobody does anything about it. Until now… Straight-talking Sam Culbert, management guru and UCLA professor, minces no words as he puts managers on notice that — with the performance review as their weapon of choice — they have built a corporate culture based on intimidation and fear. Teaming up with Wall Street Journal Senior Editor Lawrence Rout, he shows us why performance reviews are bogus and how they undermine both creativity and productivity. And he puts a good deal of the blame squarely on human resources professionals, who perpetuate the very practice that they should be trying to eliminate. But Culbert does more than merely tear down. He also offers a substitute — the performance preview — that will actually accomplish the tasks that performance reviews were supposed to, but never will: holding people accountable for their actions and their results, and giving managers and their employees the kind of feedback they need for improving their skills and to give the company more of what it needs. With passion, humor, and a rare insight into what motivates all of us to do our best, Culbert offers all of us a chance to be better managers, better employees and, indeed, better people. Culbert has long said his goal is to make the world of work fit for human consumption. “Get Rid of the Performance Review!” shows us how to do just that. |
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Get Rid of the Performance Review! (Hardcover) $44.73 Based upon a startling article in the Wall Street Journal that appeared in November, 2008, Dr. Sam Culbert, a professor at the prestigious UCLA Anderson School of Business and an expert on human relations in the workplace, summarized what most of us have already known for years – that annual corporate performance appraisals not only don`t work, they actually cause more problems than they solve.In this powerful book, Culbert, with his co-writer Larry Rout, a long-time editor at the Wall Street Journal, pinpoints how performance reviews destroy employee morale, are rarely helpful, vary widely from one manager to the next, and in short, actually have a negative impact on both the supervisor and his/her subordinate. Plus they give rise to emotional friction between the two individuals that often can`t be repaired.By using real-life examples of how performance reviews are botched, screwed up, and get in their own way, Culbert make a strong case as to why performance reviews should be totally revised, or thrown on the corporate scrap heap.Culbert then provides the solution: instead of performance reviews, he strongly advocates the adoption of performancepreviews. In effect, managers and bosses should address key issues in their subordinate`s performance when those problems pop up right away — not at the end of the year. Performance previews work. Full of common sense, along with real passion, this book confronts one of the long-standing traditions in management/employee relationship and advocates strongly for immediate change. |
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