A Practical Approach to Performance Interventions and Analysis: 50 Models for Building a High-Performance Culture

B. The Authors and Their Perspectives

This book is about creating performance cultures in the workplace. It describes theoretical models for human competence and performance improvement and includes practical how-tos; performance analysis, gap analysis, measurement, and evaluation; and powerful Work/Life Approaches.

From a cultural performance perspective, it is important to realize that each organization has an individual and specific culture that is influenced by its own norms, rituals, rites, and people. To look at a workplace culture is to look at it from the perspective of a cultural anthropologist learning from within the culture and sharing with those outside the culture. Although this is a conceptually rich and practical book on performance ...