This books is called complete, and while I'm not sure whether any book can be a complete guide to performance appraisal, there is lots of material in this. It's huge. Recommended as a reference book, or an a supporting piece to some of the shorter books in this list.

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Product Description

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 you want to create and implement an ideal system from scratch, The Complete Guide to Performance Appraisal is your one-stop, how-to-do-it resource.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62981 in Books
• Published on: 1996-12-20
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 400 pages

Review

" ""Dick Grote makes a difference. He understands

the real world of organizational life and how to

create positive change through a focus on

accountabilities and measures.""

-- Edward F. Walsh, VP Human Resources,

Campbell Soup Company

""If more organizations followed Grote's good sense

approach to performance feedback and

development of employees...those organizations

would reap much greater return on their human

capital.""

-- Carol Alspaugh Denton, Senior VP and

Managing Director, Drake Beam Morin, Inc.

""Provides commonsense advice to those who

have the courage to move forward to design and

implement a performance appraisal process that

focuses on improving the workforce environment

and productivity.""

-- ""BJ"" Bennett, Commissioner, Georgia State

Merit System of Personnel Administration"

Book Info
Managers hate to conduct performance appraisalsÜ This comprehensive guide will ease their pain. Based on 25 years of experience, the author gives readers everything needed to make the process work well. DLC: Employees - ratings of.

About the Author

DICK GROTE (Dallas, TX) is president of Grote Consulting and an adjunct professor of management at the University of Dallas Graduate School of Management. He is also the author of Discipline Without Punishment (AMACOM).

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Customer Reviews

Mixed strengths...
I tried out this book when I taught a course on performance management. This is a sound text for a practitioner willing to sift through the text to find answers to specific problems. (It's not a briefcase book, so it will take some work to find the answers.) It is also useful in that it provides multiple examples of forms and procedures that can serve as templates.

On the other hand, Grote has a palpable disdain for research that is evident in the very first chapter. He rarely cites other literature, academic or otherwise, and is even loathe to provide general references. In fact, his recommendations seem based entirely on his own experiences, which in many cases are consistent with the best practices suggested by research, but in some respects are oddly divergent. (He also not above pushing his own programs, such as his "discipline without punishment" system, which are are not as widely accepted as the text would lead a reader to believe.) Additionally, the quality of the writing varies WILDLY between chapters. Some are quite coherent and smooth, whereas others are an absolute mess for students to outline and follow.

In the future, I will probably recommend this book as a supplemental text, particularly for MBA students or undergraduates who intend to go straight into the workforce. I would not recommend it as a primary text, especially in an I/O Psychology setting or for PhD students.

Recommended for researchers, students
This book is the heavyweight of books on performance appraisal, in terms of size, price and detail. As such it's an excellent reference book for researchers, hr professionals, students and academics if their interest is the "traditional" way of doing appraisals.

On the other hand, it is not as practical for managers, due to its size and price. Or rather there are better choices. One other significant disadvantage of this book is that it is traditional, and lacks new ideas or approaches such as put forth by Deming, Scholtes and Coens.

Of course the manager who likes to read on these topics will also gain. It's just that these days it's hard to get anybody to read anything related to work that is this size.