Increasing Productivity through Performance Appraisal (2nd Edition)

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Summary: Wealth of Information
Review: Gary P. Lantham and Kenneth N. Wexley's book is a thorough account of the history of performance appraisal and how performance appraisal has held up in the legal system. The authors advocate a reasonable plan for appraising employee performance but do not acknowledge a perfect appraisal system is beyond our reach. As long as human behavior is evaluated, subjectivity can not be removed from the process. Lantham and Wexley's plan does provide for a system that would improve appraisal documentation and application of training in many organizations. The book should be required reading by all professionals for one reason probably not intended by the authors. Improving Productivity Through Performance Appraisal explains how important goal-setting is to performance and how to apply feedback to improving personal performance.