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Dr. Swan's best-selling book on performance appraisal.

How to Do a Superior Performance Appraisal
by William S. Swan, Ph.D. (with Phillip Margulies)

For anybody who equates doing a performance appraisal with a dental appointment, here's a complete guide to painless, mutually profitable appraisals. Written by bestselling management author and Fortune 1000 consultant Dr. William S. Swan, it shows you how to transform what traditionally has been a source of potential conflict among managers and staff members, into a productive and mutually profitable process for both employer and employee.

  • A systematic, step-by-step guide to conducting appraisals that reduces defensiveness and conflict while increasing quality and productivity.
  • All the nuts and bolts of doing an appraisal: data collecting, avoiding errors, knowing EEO guidelines, and much more.
  • Packed with useful checklists, information sheets, and sample dialogues, including a model performance appraisal form incorporating what has been proven to be the most powerful approach.
  • Throughout, the emphasis is on performance management vs. simplistic "report-card" type systems.

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