Best Practices: Evaluating Performance: How to Appraise, Promote, and Fire [Paperback]

Barry Silverstein (Author)

Book Description

Series: Best Practices | Publication Date: April 3, 2007

Successful management relies on identifying and promoting high-performing employees—and targeting underperformers for serious improvement. Evaluating Performance, a comprehensive and essential resource for any manager on the run, shows you how.

Learn to:

• Monitor day-to-day performance
• Conduct productive formal reviews
• Reward consistent, excellent performance through promotions
• Terminate underperforming employees
• Create a company-wide performance management system

The Collins Best Practices guides offer new and seasoned managers the essential information they need to achieve more, both personally and professionally. Designed to provide tried-and-true advice from the world's most influential business minds, they feature practical strategies and tips to help you get ahead.

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By Barry Silverstein

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: HarperBusiness (April 3, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061145602
• ISBN-13: 978-0061145605
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 4.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,992,436 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you want a quick and dirty overview of performance evaluation topics, then get a copy of this booklet!, October 12, 2007

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Jeff Lippincott "JLIPPIN" (Princeton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best Practices: Evaluating Performance: How to Appraise, Promote, and Fire (Paperback)

This booklet has the feel of a "fat" brochure. But it is not particularly costly and it does a nice job of explaining how leaders can appraise, promote and fire their subordinates. The booklet is divided into the following five chapters:

1. One-on-one performance management
2. Promoting employees
3. Dealing with underperformance
4. Evaluating team performance
5. Implementing performance management

I particularly liked the 6-page summary at the end of the booklet that was called "Off-and-Running." I probably would have liked the booklet better if the summary had been situated at the front of the book instead of at the end.

The booklet is packed with wonderful checklists and lists making it very easy for the reader to use the book to evaluate employee performance without having to read and study a long book on the subject. For example, one list included was entitled "Progressive Discipline Steps" and read as follows:

Informal Feedback
Performance Reviews
Oral Reprimands
Written Reprimands
Probation
Termination

All in all, this was a wonderful little booklet. 5 stars!