CHAPTER TEN

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

After you have read this chapter, you should be able to

  • Understand the importance of performance management systems to strategic human resources management
  • Understand the relationship of motivation to performance management
  • Identify the major uses of performance evaluations
  • Describe the different types of evaluation instruments and the benefits of each
  • Identify the major sources of rater errors when conducting evaluations
  • Be able to discuss the legal issues associated with performance evaluations

The increasing demands for accountability made by the stakeholders of public and nonprofit organizations have focused greater attention on performance management. As a result, agencies have begun to reevaluate their ...

Get Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Strategic Approach, 4th Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.