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Unit 11: Organisational Change through Performance Management

11.7 Review Questions Notes

1. Why it is important for HR professionals to make pre-assumptions of organisational
change?
2. Why has high performance team assumed importance in recent past?
3. Is there any relation between the organisational culture and performance management?

4. Why is it so hard to change the operating environment?
5. How does the operating environment affect performance?
6. How does a leader take their group and turn them in to this high performing team?
7. “A team needs to have a sense of being a team, a feeling of cohesiveness.” Discuss.
8. “Change and learning are built right into the same fabric.” Discuss.

9. Building a strong performance culture facilitates the organisations in improving the
performance and financial results of the organisation. Give some industrial examples to

support the statement.
10. Organizations cannot stay/sustain the pressure of competition unless environment ignites
creativity, conserve/nurture ideas and translate the ideas into action. Discuss.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. high performance team 2. organisational culture

3. financial results 4. development oriented
5. Corporate culture 6. Team goals
7. True 8. True
9. True 10. False

11.8 Further Readings

Books Aubrey C. Daniels, Bringing out the Best in People, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, 1999.
BD Singh, Performance Management Systems, Excel Books, New Delhi.
Business Performance Management, Magazine, Matt Weiner.
Cynthia D Fisher, Human Resource Management, 5th Edition-Biztantra.
Dixit Varsha, Performance Management, 1st edition, Vrinda Publications Ltd.
Herman Aguinis, Performance Management, Pearson Education, 2007.
Kevin R Murphy, Understanding Performance Appraisal: Social, Jeanette Cleveland.
Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, Journal of Organizational Behavior Management,
Published Quarterly, 2009.
Tapomoy Deb, Performance Appraisal and Management, Excel Books, New Delhi.
Thomas C. Mawhinney, William K. Redmon and Carl Merle Johnson, Handbook of
Organizational Performance, Routledge. 2001.

Online link www.managementhelp.org

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