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Unit 1: Introduction to Performance Management

3. Discuss the philosophy behind the performance management. Notes

4. What are the pre-requisites of performance management?
5. List the key challenges to performance management.
6. What are the key reasons behind the move from performance appraisal to performance
management?

7. Enlist the characteristics of performance management.
8. What are the key objectives and principles of performance management?
9. “Performance management helps in evaluating employees in order to enable them to
achieve reasonable goals.” Discuss.
10. Explain the linkage of performance management with other sub-systems.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. results 2. multidimensional
3. practical challenges 4. Performance appraisal
5. observed behaviors 6. performance appraisal
7. Management by Objectives 8. continuous process

9. True 10. True
11. False 12. False
13. False 14. True
15. True

1.12 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.

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