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Performance Management and Appraisal: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians
G. Edward Evans
Neil-Schuman
New York, NY
2004
Keywords Performance management, Performance appraisal, Librarians
Review DOI 10.1108/01435120510631963
In many employees' experience, performance appraisal processes are among the most over-promised and under-delivered initiatives promulgated by their organisations. Furthermore, they typically generate more anxiety and stress than a minor earthquake and leave most managers and staff feeling similarly unbalanced in the aftermath. Despite the trepidation felt by many people, performance appraisal does not have to be an unpleasant chore - in fact, when done effectively, it can be a potentially rewarding experience for all involved. Many useful training and professional development initiatives for example have had their genesis in performance appraisal interviews.
Sadly, however, performance appraisals are more often done poorly by organisations and once bitten, most participants are twice shy. In Performance Management and Appraisal, G. Edward Evans provides librarians and...