Painless Performance Evaluations

By Marnie E. Green

Book Overview

This step-by-step guide reflects 20 years of teaching and training managers and supervisors the most practical and positive approach to conducting performance evaluations and the duties associated with managing performance. This book is a collection of tools and methods, as well as a guide for those who are looking for new, more effective ways to manage performance. Supervisors, managers, and executives across the world are using these tools to facilitate better employee communication, improve performance, and to ensure better documentation of employee performance. KEY TOPICS: "Think About It" boxes: Ask the reader to apply the concepts to their real life situations and/or organizations./Case Studies: Present a practical application and dilemma for the reader to consider./Performance Checklist: Provides a summary of the key action items presented in the chapter./Performance Management Example Forms: Illustrate the phases of the performance management cycle. Provides reader with a frame of reference. KEY MARKET: An excellent resource for Human Resource Directors, Human Resource Analysts, Training Managers/Directors, Chief Learning Officers, Education Specialists, Organizational Development Managers, Supervisors of all types, Officer Managers, Administrative officers or for those looking for new, more effective ways to manage performance. Also appropriate for use in corporate or government organization training programs as a textbook or as a self-study tool.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131706756
• ISBN13: 9780131706750
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

If I could give this book more than 5 Stars, I would!

Marnie Green has written a well laid out and easy to use guide for anyone who performs employee performance evaluations. Employees dread their reviews, wondering what they could have done better and how they will stack up against other employees. They come to their evaluation with sweaty palms, a nervous stomach and high hopes. Marnie gives managers and HR professionals an easy, practical outline to streamline and create a positive evaluation experience for the manager and the employee. She helps you conduct an evaluation with confidence, build employee respect, understand that the evaluation is not just on past work, but to plan for the future and help employees succeed. This is a valuable guidebook that should be in every managers office and be required reading.

Excellent tips!

As an HR professional, I am constantly looking for ways to coach the management teams on performance management. Marnie Green does an excellent job of outlining an efficient and truly 'painless' evaluation process. This book not only gives good advice on writing evaluation comments, but also advice on how to effectively deliver evaluations. I look forward to coaching our management team using some of Marnie Green's techniques.

A hands-on guide that will improve performance

This book is an easy read, and it is filled with practical information that can be applied immediately. You may be preparing for your first performance review, or you may have completed hundreds of performance reviews--read this book and you will walk away with a hands-on approach to performance management that will make a real difference in the performance of your team and the overall performance of your organization. Susan Shoemaker, Head, Education Development Center, Ministry of Health, College of Health Sciences, Kingdom of Bahrain

Painless Performance Evaluations - A Practical Approach to Managing Day-to-Day Employee Performance

Painless Performance Evaluations - A Practical Approach to Managing Day-to-Day Employee Performance is an excellent reference for easy-to-apply tools and ideas related to the dreadful subject of performance evaluations. Marnie Green's book successfully provides tips and guidlines that management can implement and follow, making the challenge of evaulating employees a positive experience!

The only book you need

Reviewed by Irene Watson for Reader Views (12/05) Green's sets out a concise course in employee performance evaluations in book form. She delves into case studies and gives important tips and tools that help managers and supervisors focus on the issues at hand. Her concepts are about improving performance through feedback, coaching and training. "Painless Performance Evaluations" poses questions to think about after what is being read, as well as a quiz at the end of each chapter. Green explains documentation, identifying issues, legal aspects of evaluations, as well as the difference between attitudes and behaviors. She also details the roles of supervisors, employees and Human Resources. Furthermore, Green gives pages of sample management tools that can be adapted to any business. She even encourages that employees participate in their own performance evaluations. Green's book is clear, thorough, and easy to read. It encompasses all that one needs to know when conducting performance evaluations. "Painless Performance Evaluations" would be ideal when conducting management classes or a study guide for new managers or supervisors. There is no need for any other book.