Performance Management: Developing People & Performance (Management Briefs) - Softcover

This is a book that should be initially found in every executive's briefcase to be read in planes, trains and hotels. Thereafter, it should be found in their book cases where it can be accessed as a ready reference of this important aspect of every manager's responsibility.A" Wayne Brockbank, Professor of Business, Director of Centre of Strategic HR Leadership, University of Michigan. Frank Scott-Lennon and Fergus Barry have done us the great service of inventing a practical performance management system that will carry business leaders from the slower strategic world of today to the much more opportunistic, fast-changing world of tomorrow.A" Charles Spinoza, Director of Marketing Practices, Vision Consulting This book, with its explanation of the DEFT model, helps organisations concentrate on the best elements of practice of a system.A" Paul Sparrow, Centre of Performance- Led HR, Professor of International HRM, Lancaster University School of Management.

This is a fast read for busy managers of the essentials of Performance Management. The learning is presented in a most accessible manner. The message is delivered through the simple DEFT mode - Dialogue, Epectations, Feedback, Timely.