Forced ranking is a controversial workforce management tool that uses intense yearly evaluations to identify a company's best and worst performing employees. Why It Matters Now Although most large organizations refuse to publicly discuss or even confirm whether they're using some form of forced ranking, as many as...
Forced Ranking Making Performance Management Work Dick Grote A Harvard Business School Press / McGraw-Hill Publication www.HBSPress.org ISBN: 1-59139-748-0 $35 US; 260 pages; hardcover Forced ranking may be the most controversial topic in management today. This toughminded talent-management process assesses employee performance relative to peers rather than against predetermined...
Recommended Reading Forced Ranking: Making performance management work by Dick Grote Harvard Business School Press ISBN: 1-59139-748-0 Dick Grote's book is written in a clear and conversational style, making for easily manageable reading and, in less than 200 pages, he has completed a thorough review of a topic that...
Forced Ranking By Dick Grote, Harvard Business School Press, 2005 256 pages, List price: $35, ISBN: 1-59139-748-0 Forced ranking--rating employee performance relative to how peers perform, rather than just against a set of formal standards--is so controversial that when Dick Grote researched this book,...
Harold S. Hook, the former CEO of American General insurance company now AIG, once opined that there are only three ways to make a basic, fundamental change in a person's attitude: deep psychotherapy, deep religious conversion and brain surgery. He may be right....
Harold S. Hook, the former CEO of American General insurance company now AIG, once opined that there are only three ways to make a basic, fundamental change in a person's attitude: deep psychotherapy, deep religious conversion and brain surgery. He may be right. The problem is, there aren't...
Most managers hate conducting performance appraisal discussions. What's worse, few feel confident in their ability to accurately assess the performance of a subordinate. In The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book, expert Dick Grote answers over 100 of the most common--and most difficult--questions about this vitally important but often misunderstood...
Most managers hate conducting performance appraisal discussions. What's worse, few feel confident in their ability to accurately assess the performance of a subordinate. In The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book, expert Dick Grote answers over 100 of the most common--and most difficult--questions about this vitally important but often misunderstood...
Performance Appraisal Source Book A terrific guide -- completely practical and easy to use. This gem is chock full of both great examples and wise advice. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] --Dick Grote, author, The Complete Guide to Performance Appraisal HIPAA Privacy Source Book ...
The Complete Guide to Performance Appraisal supplies you with the quickest, surest and most up-to-date methods available for making your appraisal system outstanding. Whether you want to get the maximum impact from your existing system or create and implement an ideal system from scratch, this is your one-stop, how-to-do-it resource....
The performance review: Too often it's an ordeal that's loathed, feared, and rescheduled until it can't be put off any longer. So common is the tendency to disparage the traditional employee evaluation that we have to wonder if the annual ritual is worth the effort. Why...
Dick Grote. The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book: A Survival Guide for Managers. New York: AMACOM, 2002, 238 pages, $17.95 softcover. Reviewed by Maria Rotundo, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. The human resource management...
The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book: A Survival Guide for Managers By Dick Grote AMACOM ISBN: 0-8144-7151-X Softcover $17.95 Described as a straight-talking guide to mastering a critical and misunderstood management tool, this new book discusses the "agonizing drill mandated by human resources departments, loathed...
A GOOD BOOK Title: The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book: A Survival Guide for Managers Author: Dick Grote Publisher: AMACOM ISBN: 0-8144-7151-X The performance appraisal could easily be considered the ugly duckling of the management tool trade. While the performance appraisal, when used correctly, can...
By Dick Grate AMACOM, 2002 240 pages List Price: $17.95 ISBN: 0-8144-7151-X Do you wonder about the effectiveness of your organization's employee appraisal process? If so, you're not alone. Consultant and author Dick Grote has collected some common questions in...
Find out how to handle appraisals in some of the most difficult situations. Most of the time, performance appraisal works like it should. Rater and ratee talk about how the past year has gone. They discuss aspects of performance that require both commendation and correction. They set some...
Todd Raphael is the online editor for WORKFORCE. Employees MUST Do More Than Show Up http://www.workforce.com/buzz This month, Dick Grote, a commentator for National Public Radio and columnist for WORKFORCE.COM, writes about "Defining Deviancy Down." "Too many employers seem to have abandoned...
By CHRISTIE APPELHANZ The Capital-Journal Today's innovative leaders in performance management are found in government, not the private sector, a national author and speaker told Kansas state government employees Thursday. "We have always assumed new ideas originated in the private sector...
For the most part, performance evaluations are pretty painful. Most managers hate talking about a subordinate's shortcomings and no employee likes to get the word that he's anything short of perfect. But there are ways to turn evaluations into useful tools to improve employee performance. ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 16 -- MAKE EVALUATIONS LESS OF A STRUGGLE: For the most part, performance evaluations are pretty painful. Most managers hate talking about a subordinate's shortcomings and no employee likes to get the word that he's anything short of...
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