TY - BOOK TI - Harvard business review on appraising employee performance SN - 9781591397687 U1 - 658.3125 PY - 2005/// CY - Boston, MA PB - Harvard Business School Press KW - Employees KW - Performance standards KW - Personnel management N1 - Articles originally published 1970-2003 in Harvard business review; Management by whose objectives? / Harry Levinson -- Fear of feedback / Jay M. Jackman and Myra H. Strober -- A new game plan for C players / Beth Axelrod, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Ed Michaels -- Getting 360-degree feedback right / Maury A. Peiperl -- Taking time seriously in evaluating jobs / Elliott Jaques -- Job sculpting: the art of retaining your best people / Timothy Butler and James Waldroop -- The young and the clueless / Kerry A. Bunker, Kathy E. Kram, and Sharon Ting -- Saving your rookie managers from themselves / Carol A. Walker N2 - This collection is from the leading minds that have established "Harvard Business Review" as required reading for businesspeople around the globe. While often loathed by supervisors and subordinates alike, appraisals are necessary precursors of performance improvement. This helpful collection examines the employee review process from many angles, exploring why we dislike it, how it could be better, and how appraisals should differ depending on the employee in question. Whether concerned with retaining stars, guiding underperformers, or improving one's own performance-readers will learn to approach appraisals in new and more productive ways UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0420/2004016976.html ER -