TY - BOOK AU - Harvard Business Essentials TI - Performance management : : measure and improve the effectiveness of your employees SN - 9781591398424 U1 - 658.312 HAR PY - 2006/// CY - Boston, Mass. : PB - Harvard Business School Press, KW - Personnel management. KW - Performance standards N1 - Goals: guides to action -- Motivation: the not-so-secret ingredient of high performance -- Monitoring performance: looking for what's going wrong and right -- Closing gaps and improving performance : the basics of coaching -- Becoming a better coach : beyond the basics -- Formal performance appraisal: improving results through feedback -- Employee development: helping people grow in their careers -- Intractable performance problems: face them head-on -- Epilogue: what leaders must do -- Appendix A: Useful implementation tools -- Appendix B: Handling a dismissal ER -