Purchase
Get Rid of the Performance Review!
Samuel Culbert
How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start Managing--and Focus on What Really Matters
Business Plus
April 2010
On Sale: April 14, 2010
256 pages
ISBN: 044655605X
EAN: 9780446556057
Hardcover
Add to Wish List
Self-Help
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.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2024 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy