Performance Management

Author: Chief Editor Shi Jintao
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The Performance Management textbook was compiled by Professor Shi Jintao of the Human Resource Management Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. It integrates the practical experiences of human resource management in China's state-owned (and state-controlled) enterprises and private enterprises over the recent years. The content is organized based on lecture outlines, teaching materials, and case studies from Professor Shi's years of teaching, while also referencing advanced management theories and practices from abroad. The core idea of this book is that performance management, as a component and function of human resource management, is not only a control tool for achieving corporate strategic goals but also a means to form and continuously improve various subsystems within the enterprise and to optimize the entire corporate system. It can help management develop a strategic mindset characterized by rigor and science, and it can also foster an atmosphere of participation in performance appraisal and management within the organization. This encourages every employee to start from self-assessment, self-supervision, self-improvement, and self-development, cultivating behavioral habits aligned with the organization's goals. Thus, it forms a unique sustainable competitive advantage—the performance culture. In today's global economic integration and the continuous advancement of China's internationalization, any organization's senior management must fully recognize that performance management is not merely a routine task for the human resources department. It is rather a fundamental guarantee for the implementation of the organization's strategy. The human resources department should adopt the role of a strategic partner to the enterprise, thinking and responding to the various challenges faced by organizational management from a strategic, scientific, and pragmatic perspective.