Performance Appraisal Design Manual

by Ferdinand F. Fournies

340 pages, Hardcover

Published April 1, 1983

Reviews

[Terrence · Rating 5 out of 5]

Written in 1983. I bet you will not find a human resources manager or administrator of performance appraisals that has ever read this book or even heard of its existence. This book shows how most if not all performance appraisal systems fail to meet the objective to improve employee performance. The tragedy is that most if not all performance appraisals are morale-killers for not only the recipient but also the manager performing the appraisal. On top of that, performance appraisal systems are management's self-inflicted wound. Since most managers find it too hard to do it right, and lacking skills to confront substandard performance, then they write appraisals that simply fill up the employee's file year after year with non-controversial paper. When a new manager comes on board and wants to take effective action regarding an employee not performing up to standards, he or she is faced with an uphill battle because of that record of satisfactory appraisals in the employee’s file. This book and other books by this author should be must reading for any manager, but most particularly those in human resources management. Recommend that you read it cover to cover, because the author develops his thesis step by step. Here is a link to author's website: