By K. Ashok Vardhan Shetty - The `Performance Appraisal Report', a new annual scheme for assessing IAS officers, will replace the Annual Confidential Reports in other public services too. ^new (Added: 22-Jan-2006 Hits: 81 )

By na - The Results-Oriented Performance Culture system focuses on having a diverse, results-oriented, high-performing workforce, as well as a performance management system that effectively plans, monitors, develops, rates, and rewards employee performance. ^new (Added: 20-Jan-2006 Hits: 112 )

By HIROMICHI SHIBATA - Abstract only - article is pay per view. Abstract: Unionized Japanese and American firms made changes in their wage and performance appraisal systems during the 1990s that were inspired by features of each others' traditional employment systems. Although Japanese firms made greater changes in the wage-setting process compared to American firms, outcomes in Japan changed little. Even with these changes, the wage and performance appraisal systems in the two countries retain distinctive characteristics. In the American firms' "segregation" between white- and blue-collar employees and high- and low-performers remains a feature of wage and performance appraisal systems; the Japanese system maintained its characteristic "integrated" form, but underwent moderate modifications. ^new (Added: 22-Jan-2006 Hits: 114 )