Performance management :  measure and improve the effectiveness of your employees / 
Richard Luecke, writer ; Brian J. Hall, subject adviser. 
 - Boston, Mass. :  Harvard Business School Press,  (c)2006. 
 - 1 online resource (xvi, 153 pages) :  illustrations. 
 - Harvard business essentials .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Goals: guides to action --  Motivation: the not-so-secret ingredient of high performance --  Monitoring performance: looking for what's going wrong and right --  Closing gaps and improving performance : the basics of coaching --  Becoming a better coach : beyond the basics --  Formal performance appraisal: improving results through feedback --  Employee development: helping people grow in their careers --  Intractable performance problems: face them head-on --  Epilogue: what leaders must do --  Appendix A: Useful implementation tools --  Appendix B: Handling a dismissal. 
<br/><br/> 'Performance Management' will help managers use informal performance assessments and feedback as part of their regular interactions with employees. Readers will learn to prepare for a formal performance meeting with a direct report, document a performance meeting, and create a development plan with the employee. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781422131749 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Personnel management.<br/>Performance standards.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HF5549  / .P474 2006