Preface
When we got the idea for this book, we expected to surely find dozens of other books with the same theme. After all, it’s common knowledge that every organization struggles with the ritual of performance appraisal, perpetually getting disappointing results. One does not need to consult studies to realize the omnipresent, destructive effects of appraisal. Certainly, in this age of enlightened management, we thought, many others must have condensed appraisal’s hopeless track record and offered genuinely different pathways.
To our surprise, however, we found no other books devoted to abolishing appraisal and exploring fresh approaches to the functions of appraisal. We found hundreds of books on various ways of trying to improve, reform, ...
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