Performance Enablement: A New Model for Driving Organizational Performance

This book is about the process we all love to hate: performance management.However, you won't hear the authors arguing that you need to change your rating scale, update your form, or simply train your managers or have more feedback conversations.Research has shown that these tactics have done little to improve the process. Performance Enablement argues that we need a new paradigm.Traditional performance management was born in a different era, based on a great deal of research that has been debunked over the years.The authors offer a new philosophy about how to drive individual and organizational performance that is grounded in how modern organizations operate, and based on research from economics, management, and psychology that points to a new, more effective way to motivate, engage, and develop your talent to drive real business outcomes. The book begins with an important question: What is the purpose of performance management?For most organizations, the central purpose is not to dri