A Practitioners’ Guide to Alternatives in Agile Organisations
This book demonstrates, in detail, why annual performance appraisals might still work in hierarchical environments, but largely fail in agile ones. The annual performance appraisal is one of the world’s most widely used management tools. For many years, it was indeed seen as a pre-requisite for successful leadership and professional management. While most managers and employees have always been sceptical in this respect, those at a strategic level are now also realising it causes more harm than good, and a growing number of leading companies have similarly abolished this approach. One key reason lies in the changing working world, and the quest for greater organisational agility. Companies are moving away from rigid structuring. The arguments are presented objectively but with practical relevance, coherently illustrating the available alternatives for achieving what annual performance appraisals largely have not.
This book has been published in 2017 at Springer-publisher as part of the series Management for Professionals.
More and more companies think about alternative ways of running performance appraisal. This episode of my Master Course provides a good roadmap on how to do such a relaunch.
There are significant differences between Feedback, Judgement and Praise. Once companies diffuse these distinct concepts in practice they will earn toxic effects. In this little video I tell you why