Product Description: This book provides professionals with an easy reference resource for successfully implementing a performance management system in a multinational company. Providing research-based strategies for reconciling the global-local dilemma is the focus of the book...read more

Product Description: This second edition provides managers and students the nuts and bolts of assessment processes and selection techniques. With this knowledge, managers learn to make informed personnel decisions based on the results of tests and assessments...read more

Managing staff performance is an effective mechanism for developing both staff and organizational growth. By clarifying an organization’s objectives, translating these into clear individual goals, and reviewing these goals regularly, performance management provides a well-structured and effective management tool. This new edition of Armstrong’s Handbook of Performance Management looks at the results of major research in this area. Armstrong considers how evidence-based material can inform one’s understanding of performance management, and he provides practical guidance on how this evidence can be interpreted and applied.

Product Description: Performance Management is a guide to the fundamental principles of training, learning, and development. Tailored to the needs of HR practitioners, it offers a complete overview of the field strongly aligned to organizational and HR strategies and objectives...read more

Product Description: The challenge with most companies' talent intelligence is that it is just not that intelligent. Having good talent intelligence—an accurate understanding of the skills, expertise, and qualities of people—is essential for the people decisions that all businesses make...read more

Product Description: Actionable communication and management strategies for tackling difficult workplace discussions Delivering the uncomfortable news that an employee is not stacking up can be stressful, and managers often have difficulties finding the right words to get their message across...read more

Product Description: The Workforce Engagement Equation is for the hands-on leaders engaged in the frontline of affecting change―those who bear the scars of past failed initiatives yet continue to persevere. Describing the science behind the "Art of Managing" process improvement, it will help you bridge the gap between strategy and tactics and allow you to take concrete action to control ongoing operations sustainably...read more

You can achieve performance levels once thought unattainableÐbut only when managers and workers establish clear lines of communication, and understand how their jobs contribute to the goals of both themselves and the organization. Performance Management is the comprehensive guidebook on how to establish a communication system to get top performance and value from each employee. It will show you how to conduct goals-focused performance planning meetings and performance appraisals and foster a true commitment to success within each employee. A meaningful tool for stimulating workplace cooperation, Performance Management will benefit the employee, the manager, and the organization itself.