Get Rid of the Performance Review! How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start Managing--and Focus on What Really Matters

by Culbert, Samuel A.; Rout, Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9780446556057
• ISBN10: 044655605X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-14
• Publisher: Business Plus

Summary

Too many bosses think the only way to manage is to scare the hell out of employees. No wonder so many people are afraid to say what they really think at work. But guess what?

Author Biography

Samuel A. Culbert is Professor of Management at UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is the recipient of the American Association of Publishers Best Management Book of the Year award and the Harvard Business Review McKinsey Award.

Larry Rout is an editor at the Wall Street Journal. It was he who wrote the original explosive article about Culbert's views on performance reviews.

Table of Contents

Now Look at the Mess You've Made.	p. 1
If the Performance Review Doesn't Work, Why Does Everyone Use It?	p. 15
From My Point of View, I'm Objective.	p. 35
Pay for Performance ... and Other Lies Your Bosses Tell You.	p. 63
Here's What's Wrong with You. Now Fix It.	p. 89
We're All in This Together. Not.	p. 121
There Has to Be a Better Way. And There Is.	p. 143
You Can Get There from Here.	p. 171
In Case You Still Have Doubts...	p. 203
What's It Going to Be?	p. 225
Acknowledgments	p. 229
Index	p. 233
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