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Performance Appraisal: State of the Art in Practice (Jossey-Bass Business & Management)

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As stated by series editor Manuel London, "the current volume, edited by J.W. Smither, provides state-of-the-art methods for performance management. The authors recognize the strategic, systemic role of a performance appraisal process that evaluates employees or behaviors that are important to organizational success and ties the appraisal results to rewards and development...The goal is to design a performance appraisal process that is fair and applies in different organizational situations and contexts. New forms of appraisal are described, such as 360-degree survey feedback and self-assessment. The book shows how to increase rater accuracy and how to use appraisals for employee development. Overall, the book is valuable resource to practitioners who want to evaluate and revamp their appraisal systems to meet the changing needs of their organizations."

In this context, as a sample, in thirteenth chapter of this book " Performance-Based Pay Plans" Robert L. Heneman and Maria T. Gresham focus the issue of how organizations can most effectively make the link between performance appraisal and compensation and incentive systems. As stated by them " this requires an understanding of the need for performance-based pay, the compensation context, types of reward systems, design issues, and implementation issues." Thus each of this topics have been examined as a literature review :

* types of pay and performance plans : merit pay, team-based merit pay, skill-based pay, competency-based pay, piece-rate pay, standart hour plan, group incentives, suggestion systems, team recognition plans, gainsharing, sales commissions and team sales plans, profit sharing and stock sharing, executive pay.

* pay and performance plan effectiveness.

* design issue : integration with business strategy and organizational culture, motivational considerations, performance measurement levels.

* implementation issues : measurement, fairness, communications.

Not only this chapter, but this book as a whole is highly recommended for HR professionals.

See also : Maximizing the Value of 360-Degree Feedback - Walter Tornow, Manuel London

Dr. Smither has pulled together a wonderful group of authors in developing a book that covers the most important aspects of performance appraisal. A must-have for those engaged in this often difficult aspect of management.

Although this is book is starting to get a little dated, it remains an outstanding resource for practitioners working in performance appraisal settings, and especially for researchers looking for a good overview of the topic. Particularly strong chapters cover topics including training raters (Hauenstein), politics in the performance appraisal process (Kozlowski et al.), and fairness in PA (Gilliland & Langdon). Chapters that have become somewhat outdated include the chapters on legal trends in PA (Malos) and multisource feedback (Dalessio). I still use selections from this book when teaching courses on performance appraisal, and I have only docked it one star due to its age. In most respects, this is a must-have book for anyone interested in performance management.

This book (and all the books in the SIOP series) come very highly recommended by my professor.

I'd like to know the auther. Please send his email address to me. Thanks