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- What Is Forced Ranking?
- Forced ranking is a controversial workforce management tool that uses intense yearly evaluations to identify a company's best and worst performing employees. Why It Matters Now Although most large organizations refuse to publicly discuss or even confirm whether they're using some form of forced ranking, as many as...
- Articles 2007-03-20
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- Forced Ranking Making Performance Management Work
- Forced Ranking Making Performance Management Work Dick Grote A Harvard Business School Press / McGraw-Hill Publication www.HBSPress.org ISBN: 1-59139-748-0 $35 US; 260 pages; hardcover Forced ranking may be the most controversial topic in management today. This toughminded talent-management process assesses employee performance relative to peers rather than against predetermined...
- Articles 2006-04-01
- Forced Ranking: Making performance management work
- Recommended Reading Forced Ranking: Making performance management work by Dick Grote Harvard Business School Press ISBN: 1-59139-748-0 Dick Grote's book is written in a clear and conversational style, making for easily manageable reading and, in less than 200 pages, he has completed a thorough review of a topic that...
- Articles 2006-01-01
- Forced Ranking
- Forced Ranking By Dick Grote, Harvard Business School Press, 2005 256 pages, List price: $35, ISBN: 1-59139-748-0 Forced ranking--rating employee performance relative to how peers perform, rather than just against a set of formal standards--is so controversial that when Dick Grote researched this book,...
- Articles 2005-11-01
- Attitude adjustments: to deal with an employee's bad attitude, focus on his or her specific behaviors
- Harold S. Hook, the former CEO of American General insurance company now AIG, once opined that there are only three ways to make a basic, fundamental change in a person's attitude: deep psychotherapy, deep religious conversion and brain surgery. He may be right. The problem is, there aren't...
- Articles 2005-07-01
- Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book: A Survival Guide for Managers
- Most managers hate conducting performance appraisal discussions. What's worse, few feel confident in their ability to accurately assess the performance of a subordinate. In The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book, expert Dick Grote answers over 100 of the most common--and most difficult--questions about this vitally important but often misunderstood...
- Articles 2005-07-01
- Attitude adjustments: to deal with an employee's bad attitude, focus on his or her specific behaviors.(Management Tools)
- Harold S. Hook, the former CEO of American General insurance company now AIG, once opined that there are only three ways to make a basic, fundamental change in a person's attitude: deep psychotherapy, deep religious conversion and brain surgery. He may be right....
- Articles 2005-07-01
- The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book: A Survival Guide for Managers
- Most managers hate conducting performance appraisal discussions. What's worse, few feel confident in their ability to accurately assess the performance of a subordinate. In The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book, expert Dick Grote answers over 100 of the most common--and most difficult--questions about this vitally important but often misunderstood...
- Articles 2004-07-01
- Additional source books from SHRM
- Performance Appraisal Source Book A terrific guide -- completely practical and easy to use. This gem is chock full of both great examples and wise advice. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] --Dick Grote, author, The Complete Guide to Performance Appraisal HIPAA Privacy Source Book ...
- Articles 2004-07-01
- The Complete Guide to Performance Appraisal
- The Complete Guide to Performance Appraisal supplies you with the quickest, surest and most up-to-date methods available for making your appraisal system outstanding. Whether you want to get the maximum impact from your existing system or create and implement an ideal system from scratch, this is your one-stop, how-to-do-it resource....
- Articles 2004-07-01
- How to conduct a great performance review.(MANAGEMENT)
- The performance review: Too often it's an ordeal that's loathed, feared, and rescheduled until it can't be put off any longer. So common is the tendency to disparage the traditional employee evaluation that we have to wonder if the annual ritual is worth the effort. Why...
- Articles 2004-03-22
- Fixes for YourUnderperforming Staff
- So, how do you find, fix or fire your poor performers? That's the question we asked in the Nov. 1, 2003, cover story (see article at www.cio.com/printlinks). We then asked Dick Grote, president of Grote Consulting, a management consultancy specializing in performance appraisal, to answer your questions online. Here's a...
- Articles 2004-03-01
- The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book: A Survival Guide for Managers
- Dick Grote. The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book: A Survival Guide for Managers. New York: AMACOM, 2002, 238 pages, $17.95 softcover. Reviewed by Maria Rotundo, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. The human resource management...
- Articles 2003-07-01
- GroteApproach Delivers Simple, Strategic — and Online — Performance Management; Web-Based Application Streamlines Employee Appraisal Process
- Business Editors DALLAS--BUSINESS WIRE--June 16, 2003 Grote Consulting Corp. and GroteApproach Ltd., led by performance management expert Dick Grote, announced today a new Web-based application called GroteApproachTM that makes performance appraisal, usually management's most dreaded duty, dramatically easier. GroteApproach simplifies how executives and managers set goals,...
- Articles 2003-06-16
- Ok, let's review: appraising your sales staff's performance doesn't have to be the biggest pain in anybody's year - Sales Force
- MANY SALES MANAGERS REGARD performance reviews as a ghastly task. The process has such a bad reputation, it's regular fodder for corporation-lampooning comic strip Dilbert. In one scene from the comic, the boss in Dilbert's world says to employee Alice, "Good news, Mice. I'm going to have quarterly performance reviews...
- Articles 2002-10-01
- Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book: A Survival Guide for Managers, The
- The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book: A Survival Guide for Managers By Dick Grote AMACOM ISBN: 0-8144-7151-X Softcover $17.95 Described as a straight-talking guide to mastering a critical and misunderstood management tool, this new book discusses the "agonizing drill mandated by human resources departments, loathed...
- Articles 2002-09-01
- A good book
- A GOOD BOOK Title: The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book: A Survival Guide for Managers Author: Dick Grote Publisher: AMACOM ISBN: 0-8144-7151-X The performance appraisal could easily be considered the ugly duckling of the management tool trade. While the performance appraisal, when used correctly, can...
- Articles 2002-08-01
- The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book. . - Bookshelf: Books in Brief - Brief Article - book review
- By Dick Grate AMACOM, 2002 240 pages List Price: $17.95 ISBN: 0-8144-7151-X Do you wonder about the effectiveness of your organization's employee appraisal process? If so, you're not alone. Consultant and author Dick Grote has collected some common questions in...
- Articles 2002-07-01
- Performance Appraisals: Solving Tough Challenges
- Find out how to handle appraisals in some of the most difficult situations. Most of the time, performance appraisal works like it should. Rater and ratee talk about how the past year has gone. They discuss aspects of performance that require both commendation and correction. They set some...
- Articles 2000-07-01
- Defining Deviancy Down
- Todd Raphael is the online editor for WORKFORCE. Employees MUST Do More Than Show Up http://www.workforce.com/buzz This month, Dick Grote, a commentator for National Public Radio and columnist for WORKFORCE.COM, writes about "Defining Deviancy Down." "Too many employers seem to have abandoned...
- Articles 2000-01-01
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