Performance : Creating the Performance-Driven Organization

By Mark A. Stiffler

A unified approach to performance management that integrates organization and employee performance Performance provides a practical framework for rethinking what performance management is and how it can be used to better execute strategy. It clearly presents a unified approach for aligning, measuring, rewarding, reporting, and analyzing the performance of an organization and its people that enables executives and managers to move beyond today's incomplete and fragmented approach to performance management. Featuring real-world illustrations and intuitive, practical, and actionable steps to creating a performance-driven organization, this essential guide will fundamentally change how you think about your organization's performance.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471732729
• ISBN13: 9780471732723
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Must read for managers looking for ways to improve performance!

For those managers who are looking for a clear, logical approach to improving your organization's performance this book provides a concrete way to get there. Stiffler's well thought out approach to driving performance makes absolute sense and is clearly described with well written analogies and examples from real life. It gave me a number of concepts I had never come across before and made me change the way I think about how to motivate an organization to work together toward common goals more successfully. If you read this book, you will be glad you did.

Great New Book

This book is full of practical easy to use information I was able to implement immediately. Stiffler's ability to explain complex issues in a clear & easy to understand manner made this read valuable to me and my organization. I'm using this book as a tool to help my management team understand how to use performance based management principles to grow our business.

Bridges a lot of gaps

There's a lot of talk going on about "Performance Management" but nobody seems to really know what it means (or everybody thinks they know what it means but no two opinions are alike). I found this book offer a clear vision of what Performance Management should be and needs to be in order to really link the goals and strategies of the company with those of the individual. I know that many of the companies I have worked for have had lots of Strategies and Corporate Visions (with capital letters, of course) but rarely have the "rank and file" people who make the company go truly understood or been motivated by those things. Stiffler provides a solid, actionable framework to make that connection between the company and the employees, and to make it "stick."

A well written blueprint for creating a successful organization

I recently read this book and I feel it articulates a clear blue print for organizations wishing to truly align their performance management processes with overall corporate strategy. This line of thinking not only benefits the company so that it will be successful in driving revenue, but it is also effective in creating a motivating environment for employees. Employee morale is often linked to job satisfaction, and without a clear idea of how as an employee, you can contribute to the success of your organization, you will be unable to achieve your goals. There is a lot of valuable information as well as useful charts contained within this text. Companies who have only addressed part of their performance management issues, would gain a unique perspective by reading this book.

Honest review

The book is based on some real-life examples based on Synygy's extensive experience in managing itself as well as incentive compensation plans for many Fortune 500 companies. If companies were to implement the entire culture of performance management and not just the incentive compensation part of it, they would truly benefit in aligning corporate strategy and linking it with employee pay.