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The End of Performance Appraisal

A Practitioners' Guide to Alternatives in Agile Organisations

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Authors:
  1. Armin Trost

    1. Tübingen, Germany

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  • Contributes to the hottest debate within human resource management currently taking place
  • Discusses performance appraisal on the background of current transformation of companies from being hierarchical towards being agile
  • Builds scientific and analytical alternatives to annual performance appraisal

Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-6

  3. The Annual Performance Appraisal System

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    Pages 7-19

  4. Who Are the Customers of Performance Appraisals?

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    Pages 21-48

  5. Relevant Framework Conditions of Performance Appraisals

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    Pages 49-89

  6. Possibilities and Limits of Traditional Performance Appraisals

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    Pages 91-145

  7. Better Alternatives to Performance Appraisal in an Agile Context

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    Pages 147-175

  8. Conclusion and Final Remarks

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    Pages 177-178

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 179-185
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About this book

This book demonstrates, in detail, why annual performance appraisals might still work in hierarchical environments, but largely fail in agile ones. The annual performance appraisal is one of the world’s most widely used management tools. For many years, it was indeed seen as a pre-requisite for successful leadership and professional management. While most managers and employees have always been sceptical in this respect, those at a strategic level are now also realising it causes more harm than good, and a growing number of leading companies have similarly abolished this approach. One key reason lies in the changing working world, and the quest for greater organisational agility. Companies are moving away from rigid structuring. The arguments are presented objectively but with practical relevance, coherently illustrating the available alternatives for achieving what annual performance appraisals largely have not.

 

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  • Tübingen, Germany

    Armin Trost

About the author

Professor Armin Trost lectures and researches at the HFU Business School in Furtwangen, Germany, focusing primarily on talent management, employer branding and the future of work. He previously held a professorship at Würzburg University of Applied Sciences, and was head of Worldwide recruiting at SAP for several years. He is a long-time advisor for companies of all sizes and industries in matters relating to strategic Human Resource Management. Not only is Professor Trost known as the author of numerous articles and books, he is also a trend-setting speaker at reputable conferences. A leading HR magazine in Germany has named Armin Trost as one of the top 40 thought leaders in the field of HR for several consecutive years. He is the author of the internationally recognized book 'Talent Relationship Management: Competitive Recruiting Strategies in Times of Talent Shortage' (Heidelberg: Springer, 2014).

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