Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book or Scholarship in the Digital Age

Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book: A Survival Guide for Managers

Author: Dick Grot

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 and misused tool, including:

* How should I react when an employee starts crying during the appraisal discussion . . . or gets mad at me?

* Which is more important — the results the person achieved or the way she went about doing the job?

* Is there such a thing as a perfect performance appraisal form?

Many of the answers include a Hot Tip or Red Flag: a note to the reader making a particularly insightful suggestion. This book helps supervisors and HR

professionals ease the pain of performance appraisal and use the process effectively.

Author Biography: Dick Grote (Dallas, TX) is one of America's best-recognized authors, consultants, and speakers on performance appraisal. He is the author

of Discipline Without Punishment (AMACOM: 0-8144-0276-3) and The Complete Guide to Performance Appraisal (AMACOM:

0-8144-0313-1). His articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review and The Wall Street Journal.

Toronto Globe and Mail

...a superb guide to establishing and implementing a performance appraisal system in a small or large company, steering, you through all the pitfalls.

Dayton, Ohio News

Dick Grote shows how to make the process productive rather than painful. While Grote, a performance management guru, targets managers, the book provides valuable insight for employees on the process, too.

This book is highly recommended for the organization or manager seeking to become more comfortable with the appraisal process. (April, 2003)

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
AMACOM has created a series of books that focuses on answering the difficult questions that managers have about the various issues that crop up during their jobs. These books are formatted with tables of contents that lay out the valid questions into clear categories, are organized around key management topics, and cover nearly every subtle aspect of the topics at hand. The advice contained in these books comes from authors who are experts in the fields being discussed.

Recently, AMACOM released The Hiring and Firing Question and Answer Book, which follows this unique format while delivering 112 questions with which human resources managers must grapple regularly. Along with extensive answers to these questions, which deal with many of the legal issues surrounding recruiting and retention, as well as Web resources, salary negotiations and progressive discipline, Paul Falcone delivers dozens of sample letters, forms, warnings, agreements, letters and performance evaluations to help those in charge of employee relations do their jobs.

Why Soundview Likes This Book
Finally, a publisher has taken the direct approach to answering the most frequently asked questions about specific management dilemmas by creating a nuts-and-bolts book that aims directly at making a manager's tasks easier. By formatting the most pertinent lessons from today's leading authorities into easy-to-use guides, AMACOM has created a system through which inquisitive managers can master the skills that can make them more successful leaders. Copyright (c) 2002 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
1	The Importance of Performance Appraisal	1
2	Performance Planning	21
3	Performance Execution	46
4	Performance Assessment	74
5	Performance Review	110
6	The Performance Appraisal Form	139
7	The Performance Appraisal Process	169
8	Building Performance Excellence	193
9	One Final Question	226
	Index	229
	About the Author	237

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Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet

Author: Christine L Borgman

Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and collaborative research. Although much attention has been paid to the new technologies making this possible, from digitized books to sensor networks, it is the underlying social and policy changes that will have the most lasting effect on the scholarly enterprise. In Scholarship in the Digital Age, Christine Borgman explores the technical, social, legal, and economic aspects of the kind of infrastructure that we should be building for scholarly research in the twenty-first century.

Borgman describes the roles that information technology plays at every stage in the life cycle of a research project and contrasts these new capabilities with the relatively stable system of scholarly communication, which remains based on publishing in journals, books, a nd conference proceedings. No framework for the impending "data deluge" exists comparable to that for publishing. Analyzing scholarly practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, Borgman compares each discipline's approach to infrastructure issues. In the process, she challenges the many stakeholders in the scholarly infrastructure--scholars, publishers, libraries, funding agencies, and others--to look beyond their own domains to address the interaction of technical, legal, economic, social, political, and disciplinary concerns. Scholarship in the Digital Age will provoke a stimulating conversation among all who depend on a rich and robust scholarly environment.