By Personnel Today - Dealing with performance management leaves many employers with a bad taste in their mouths, according to our Tough Love survey. What can HR do about. ^new (Added: 3-May-2006 Hits: 61 )

By Dick Grote - Best companies use performance appraisal to transform their cultures and target poor performers for termination The results of a national benchmarking study of performance appraisal procedures in large, best-practice organizations reveals that this often-scorned process is actually taken very seriously. “Performance appraisal is the primary tool organizations are using to force culture change,” said Dick Grote, the management consultant who served as subject matter expert for the study. (Press release, October 1999) (Added: 17-Oct-2004 Hits: 696 )

By Regina Glover - Article (containing various research citations) summarizes some of the findings from research on performance appraisals and how to make them work (Added: 13-Dec-2004 Hits: 1063 )

By Tziner et al - Research article that compares three different employee rating systems, including BARS (behaviorally anchored rating systems). (Added: 14-Oct-2004 Hits: 964 )

By RD Arvey - Psychologists have long been attentive to the issue of defining, understanding, and evaluating performance within work contexts. This chapter constitutes the first independent and separate treatment of recent research on this topic in an Annual Review format. (Added: 3-Dec-2002 Hits: 1081 )

By David E. Guest - The concept of the psychological contract, with its focus on the exchange of perceived promises and commitments, is increasingly used as a framework to study the employment relationship. Yet research has predominantly focused on employee views and has largely neglected the organisational perspective and the management of the psychological contract. This article begins to redress the balance by reporting a study, based on a survey of 1,306 senior HR managers, that explores the management of the psychological contract and in particular the role of organisational communication. (Added: 8-Aug-2005 Hits: 728 )

By Soltani E, Gennard J - This study presents a literature survey designed to discuss the value that can result from using a combination of system and person factors when measuring employee performance in quality-focused organisations. This exploration of the content of appraisal begins with a brief overview of the 'hard' aspect i.e. statistical approach, and 'soft' aspect i.e. people-based approach of quality management. PDF (Added: 17-Dec-2002 Hits: 795 )