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Friday, November 15, 2013

Performance Management: The Felt Need

Use of performance management dates back to 1940. Originally it was developed and used to justify whether the remuneration paid to an employee was commensurate with his performance. Over the years many sophistications were brought into this system.

In more serious ways performance management took off as a result of ever increasing competitiveness in the local and global market spheres. Due to these competitive pressures organizations felt the need for a comprehensive performance management system that could improve overall productivity and performance effectiveness on an ongoing basis and thus a unified approach was conceived.

Organizations use many types of resources like land, machines, materials, money, information, time as well as human beings. Performance management that emphasizes performance management of human resources distinguishes itself as a more successful organization. 

The performance management system integrates all the departments of an organization and steers them toward an organization’s ever increasing/changing goals year after year. The system uses processes resulting in a work environment where the employees of an organization are enabled and motivated to perform their best. 

Armstrong and Baron (1998) defined it as a “strategic and integrated approach to increase the effectiveness of companies by improving the performance of the people who work in them and by developing the capabilities of teams and individual contributors.”

(Get your copies of the related book "Essentials of Performance Management and Performance Appraisal" from Amazon online in print as well as an eBook)

Books Authored by Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar (eBooks and printed books available online from  Amazon)

Management, Business, Self-help & Personality Development Books

1. HSoftware (Human Software) (The Only Key to Higher Effectiveness)
2. Sensitive Stories of Corporate World (Management Case Studies)
3. Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers
4. Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers (Volume 2)
5. Classic Team Building Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers
6. 101 Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers
7. Stress? No Way!! (Handbook on Stress Management)
8. HSoftware (Shyam Bhatawdekar’s Effectiveness Model)
9. Competency Management (Competency Matrix and Competencies)
10. Soft Skills You Can’t Do Without (Goal Setting, Time Management, Assertiveness and Anger Management)
11. Essentials of Work Study (Method Study and Work Measurement)
12. Essentials of Time Management (Taking Control of Your Life)
13. Essentials of 5S Housekeeping
14. Essentials of Quality Circles
15. Essentials of Goal Setting
16. Essentials of Anger Management
17. Essentials of Assertive Behavior
18. Essentials of Performance Management & Performance Appraisal
19. Health Essentials (Health Is Wealth)
20. The Romance of Intimacy (How to Enhance Intimacy in a Relationship?)

Novels, Stories, Biographies and Travelogues

21. The Peace Crusaders (Novel: how the peace crusaders established permanent peace on a war strewn planet?)
22. Love Knows No Bounds (Novel: a refreshingly different love story. Also available with the title “Good People”)
23. Funny (and Not So Funny) Short Stories
24. Stories Children Will Love (Volume 1: Bhanu-Shanu-Kaju-Biju and Dholu Ram Gadbad Singh)
25. My Father (Biography)
26. Travelogue: Scandinavia, Russia