Contents:

Is the concept valid?

An uneasy look at performance appraisal (HBR clasic) by Douglas McGregor

Chairman Mac in perspective (special report) by Warren G. Bennis

Reappraisal of appraisal by Philip R. Kelly

In defense of performance appraisal by Harold Mayfield

New context of personnel appraisal (keeping informed) by Stanley Sloan and Alton C. Johnson

Make performance appraisal relevant by Winston Oberg



What approaches work best?

Performance appraisal : managers beware by Paul H. Thompson

Power networks in the appraisal process by B. Frank White and Louis B. Barnes

Make your MBO pragmatic by John B. Lasagna

Positive program for performance appraisal by Alva F. Kindall and James Gatza

Split roles in performance appraisal by H. H. meyer, E. Kay and J.R.P. French, Jr.

The employee performance record by John C. Flanagan and Robert K. Burns

Management by whose objectives? by Harry Levinson