Performance Appraisal: Book on Performance Appraisal

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Performance Management: An Imperative for Every Organization

Performance Management: The Felt Need

(The book "Essentials of Performance Management and Performance Appraisal" is available online in its eBook version and in its printed version from Amazon)

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.”

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

Friday, July 12, 2013

Essentials of Performance Management and Performance Appraisal

Performance Management and Performance Appraisal Concern Everyone in Every Organization

Performance management and performance appraisal are often confused with each other. Additionally these are often thought as management gimmicks best relegated to HR guys of an organization.

The truth is that in today’s highly competitive environment performance management and therefore, performance appraisal have become strategic interventions. Managers and employees at every level and from every department of every organization will become more effective individually and organizationally if they start using these two interventions seriously as their important management tools.

It is therefore important that every professional working in every organization must have a good knowledge of performance management and performance appraisal systems. It is in the interest of the organization as well as the employees.

In these pages, therefore, we wish to introduce here an excellent book that everyone can read quickly and improve the understanding of this subject. The name of the book we are suggesting is "Essentials of Performance Management and Performance Appraisal.

This book can become an important reference document for every manager and every employee. To assimilate the required knowledge on the subject quickly only the essential and value adding aspects of performance management and performance appraisal have been included in the book leaving out the nonessential, unnecessary and non-value adding stuff. This will help the readers to assimilate the knowledge on the subject very quickly.

The authors of the book Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar are top-notch business executives, successful entrepreneurs, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus and scholars, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. And so the book becomes an authentic document on the subject.

The book is available online in its eBook version and in its printed version from Amazon.