Archive for category Performance Management and Appraisal
How DARE He Pan My Perfect Phrases Book!
Posted by Robert Bacal in Managing and Organizations, Performance Management and Appraisal, Robert's Editorials, human resources on February 17, 2010
I don’t know this guy. I do know that on April 1, 2009, (that IS April Fools Day) Tom Roche wrote what would have been a scathing review of my book, Perfect Phrases For Performance Reviews, if only he had actually read the book. I have to admit dismay and amusement at people who can’t [...]
Employee Engagement – The Mad Fad of the 2000’s – A Poor Construct
Posted by Robert Bacal in Managing and Organizations, Performance Management and Appraisal, Research, Robert's Editorials, Site News, human resources on February 1, 2010
A colleague asked me where one could find criticisms of Employee Engagement, the buzzterm championed by marketplace monster, Gallup. There’s tons of stuff about it pushing it and making it appear to be as vital and important as…well, let’s see, Total Quality Management, Quality Circles, Employee Empowerment, and on and on.
There is very little PUBLICLY [...]
Performance Management – Keep it or should we scrap it?
Posted by Robert Bacal in Performance Management and Appraisal on August 29, 2009
Fred Nichols has oft suggested that we scrap performance appraisals, while I contend that we need to teach people to use it intelligently. Here’s a bit from the ongoing conversation.
I think this is a great example showing that we have a tendency to look at performance appraisal issues through our own direct experience, which is [...]
Productivity, Excellence and Giftedness – Stimulating Article by G. Billikopf
Posted by Robert Bacal in Advice For Trainers, Learning Theory To Practice, Managing and Organizations, Performance Management and Appraisal, Thought Jolts, human resources on July 11, 2009
Productivity, Excellence and Giftedness
Gregorio Billikopf
University of California
Ed. This piece was originally posted on HRNET by Gregorio Billikopf of the University of California. It has some excellent thoughts, but even more important it’s a great stimulus for thinking and discussion around many HR, training, performance and learning issues. Gregorio has kind given permission to reprint here [...]
Performance Management and Appraisal Books by Robert Bacal
Posted by Robert Bacal in Managing and Organizations, Performance Management and Appraisal on May 12, 2009
Since 1998 Robert Bacal has produced a wide variety of helpful books on performance management and performance appraisals. All are practically oriented. Here’s a look at books on the subject published by McGraw-Hill, and available at amazon.com You can browse, find free excerpts and make your discounted purchases by hovering and/or clicking on the books [...]
Performance Appraisal Goofs – Common Managerial Mistakes Series
Posted by Robert Bacal in Managing and Organizations, Performance Management and Appraisal on April 17, 2009
Performance appraisals are probably the most misused, and goofed-up management tool in existence. Starting from misunderstanding the whole point of appraisals, right on through to use of poor communication with employees, managers make a fairly consistent set of mistakes about employee reviews , and performance appraisals. Here’s some of them in the fourth in our [...]
Exhorting Employee To Work Harder – Common Managerial Mistakes Series
Posted by Robert Bacal in Managing and Organizations, Performance Management and Appraisal on April 16, 2009
It’s not surprising that managers try to improve productivity and employee effectiveness by exhorting staff to “try harder”, or to make more of an effort in their jobs. It’s a natural human tendency to assume that the simple act of trying harder will result in better results, but more times than not, the assumption is [...]
Cookie Cutter Performance Appraisals – Perfect Phrases For Performance Reviews
Posted by Robert Bacal in Featured, Managing and Organizations, Performance Management and Appraisal, Thought Jolts on April 8, 2009
Today two blogger posted comments on the use of cookie cutter phrases in performance appraisals, references my books, and those of another writer. The two blogs are available along with my very very brief comments:
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What issues would you like addressed in a Perf. Mgmt. book?
Posted by Robert Bacal in Performance Management and Appraisal, Uncategorized on March 16, 2009
I may be doing another book on performance management and performance appraisals, and I thought it would be interesting to find out from people whether they have issues, questions, criticisms and so on that they would like addressed in a performance management book. It’s a wide open question, and there’s obviously no wrong answers.
Please respond [...]
Performance evaluations in hard times – What to do.
Posted by Robert Bacal in Managing and Organizations, Performance Management and Appraisal on February 26, 2009
A poster on trdev-l asked about how to handle performance evaluations when the company will not be offering pay raises due to the recession. Here’s my response
Good question. I know this has come up in other places. I think that if you have been stressing that the major reason for evaluations is to determine raises,then [...]
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