Employee Performance Appraisal and Compensation Management (Fifth Edition)

Author: Ye Xiangfeng, Li Jian
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Publish Date: 2007-03-01
Features: If you want to reward high-performing employees, what criteria should you use to evaluate them? If some employees' actual capabilities differ from job requirements, how significant is the gap? What kind of training should be provided? If an employee is up for promotion, what criteria should be used to assess them? If you need to terminate an employee, how should you address their questions? The answer to all these questions is——employee performance appraisal and compensation management! For the convenience of reading, a brief introduction to the main revisions is provided. In the chapter, an explanation of the meaning of performance appraisal has been added. Based on the author's several years of experience in human resource management consulting in enterprises, although most enterprises have implemented performance appraisal, there are still various misunderstandings about it, which has affected the effectiveness of the appraisal work. Therefore, it is necessary to comprehensively elaborate on "What is performance appraisal?" In recent years, the term KPI has gradually become popular. So, what is KPI, and how to formulate KPI? We have added this content in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 introduces appraisal methods. Many readers have commented that the original book was somewhat disorganized and lacked order. Therefore, in this revision, we have categorized and merged various methods to make it easier for readers to understand. Additionally, the original book's explanation of performance feedback was somewhat outdated and narrow. According to current perspectives, feedback should not only inform employees of their appraisal results but more importantly, it should involve working with employees to identify the root causes of issues and develop performance improvement plans. Therefore, we have also reexplained "What is correct feedback?" If you want to reward high-performing employees, what criteria should you use to evaluate them? If some employees' actual capabilities differ from job requirements, how significant is the gap? What kind of training should be provided? If an employee is up for promotion, what criteria should be used to assess them? If you need to terminate an employee, how should you address their questions? The answer to all these questions is——employee performance appraisal and compensation management! For the convenience of reading, a brief introduction to the main revisions is provided. In the chapter, an explanation of the meaning of performance appraisal has been added. Based on the author's several years of experience in human resource management consulting in enterprises, although most enterprises have implemented performance appraisal, there are still various misunderstandings about it, which has affected the effectiveness of the appraisal work. Therefore, it is necessary to comprehensively elaborate on "What is performance appraisal?" In recent years, the term KPI has gradually become popular. So, what is KPI, and how to formulate KPI? We have added this content in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 introduces appraisal methods. Many readers have commented that the original book was somewhat disorganized and lacked order. Therefore, in this revision, we have categorized and merged various methods to make it easier for readers to understand. Additionally, the original book's explanation of performance feedback was somewhat outdated and narrow. According to current perspectives, feedback should not only inform employees of their appraisal results but more importantly, it should involve working with employees to identify the root causes of issues and develop performance improvement plans. Therefore, we have also reexplained "What is correct feedback?"