Chapter 7 of my book, ‘Mapping Motivation’, from Routledge (http://amzn.to/2eqdSQq ) is about Performance Appraisal and, though I say it myself, is one of the most fascinating and original chapters in the book. Indeed, I think Motivational Maps provides one of the most ingenious solutions ever to the problems that beset Performance Appraisal in theContinue reading “How Mapping Motivation Helps Performance Appraisals”
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Thinking About Appraisal and Making it Work
Appraisal is such a good idea and it is founded on such solid psychological principles that it is a wonder it has such a bad reputation, and that it fails to deliver so frequently. It was WE Deming, the great quality guru, who said that it took the average American six months to recover fromContinue reading “Thinking About Appraisal and Making it Work”
Thinking about appraisal 2
What then is appraisal? A good starting point for this is to understand what psychological principles performance appraisal is based on. William James, the founding father of American psychology, discovered that there were three conditions that always led to enhanced performance. The first was that people always performed better when they had or were givenContinue reading “Thinking about appraisal 2”
Thinking about appraisal 1
The primary goal of organisations is find and keep customers so that in this way they make a profit. But they cannot do this without the active support of their staff. The key issue is to help teams and individuals improve their performance. How, then? Appraisal is just such a system that is designed toContinue reading “Thinking about appraisal 1”
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