Get Rid of the Performance Review! Get Rid of the Performance Review!

Get Rid of the Performance Review‪!‬

How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start Managing--and Focus on What Really Matters

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Publisher Description

The performance review. It is one of the most insidious, most damaging, and yet most ubiquitous of corporate activities. We all hate it. And yet nobody does anything about it.

Until now...

Straight-talking Sam Culbert, management guru and UCLA professor, minces no words as he puts managers on notice that -- with the performance review as their weapon of choice -- they have built a corporate culture based on intimidation and fear. Teaming up with Wall Street Journal Senior Editor Lawrence Rout, he shows us why performance reviews are bogus and how they undermine both creativity and productivity. And he puts a good deal of the blame squarely on human resources professionals, who perpetuate the very practice that they should be trying to eliminate.

But Culbert does more than merely tear down. He also offers a substitute -- the performance preview -- that will actually accomplish the tasks that performance reviews were supposed to, but never will: holding people accountable for their actions and their results, and giving managers and their employees the kind of feedback they need for improving their skills and to give the company more of what it needs.

With passion, humor, and a rare insight into what motivates all of us to do our best, Culbert offers all of us a chance to be better managers, better employees and, indeed, better people. Culbert has long said his goal is to make the world of work fit for human consumption. "Get Rid of the Performance Review!" shows us how to do just that.

GENRE
Business & Personal Finance
RELEASED
2010
April 14
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
Grand Central Publishing
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
702.1
KB

Customer Reviews

Cargonza2007 ,

Good Overview of Performance Review Exercises

I like the book because it gave the overview (and some sample details) of the whole performance review process which in some extent affects productivity and relationships in an organization. Furthermore, it provides the pitfalls of mgmt in providing good feedback to direct reports but provides recommended solutions to rectify the behavior and pull the best out of the employees. Overall, it's a good book to read and get some ideas on making the performance review more effective and less painful for both parties.

HiDvorak ,

Cocky. Macho. Irritating to read.

It seems like the title was chosen, then content was generated to appeal to readers that title would attract. Prose is needlessly antagonistic and irritatingly hyperbolic.

The examples all presume that companies are staffed with passive-aggressive, scheming, and clueless incompetents lording power over powerless and put-upon underlings. I suppose if that sounds like the company you work at the advice here may be applicable. It sure doesn’t resemble where I work, though.

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