Managing Performance, Managing People: Understanding and Improving Team Performance - Softcover

Ainsworth, Murray; Smith, Neville; Millership, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1740096169 ISBN 13: 9781740096164

Publisher: Longman, 2001

Synopsis

Performance management is the most effective and practical way to address human resource and productivity issues!

• This is a practical, jargon-free guide for all managers and supervisors.
• Explains how to build individual and team performance by managing better.
• Identifies key factors to be used in a "performance equation".

Performance is the key. As a manager, it is what you are paid for, getting performance from your team by using all the resources at your disposal. Performance management can be applied in any organization and it is widely acknowledged that performance management is the most effective and practical way to address human resource and productivity issues. This is a practical, jargon free guide for all managers and supervisors which tells how to build individual and team performance by managing better. Managing Performance, Managing People helps managers explain the performance levels of their team and manage the key factors which influence these performance levels. Identifies key performance factors like role clarity, values, preference fit, competence, environment and reward and presents these factors in the form of a unique "performance equation" which simply portrays the interaction of these factors.

Murray Ainsworth is associate professor at RMIT University (Australia) business faculty Neville Smith is a chartered management consultant Anne Millership is a Director and Principal Consultant of ASM Human Resources Consulting Services.

About this title

About the Author

Murray Ainsworth is associate professor at RMIT University (Australia) business faculty Neville Smith is a chartered management consultant Anne Millership is a Director and Principal Consultant of ASM Human Resources Consulting Services.

From the Back Cover

Performance is the key to business success.  As a manager, that is what you are paid to achieve - targeted outcomes (performance) from your team by using all available resources.  Performance management is the most effective and efficient way to address your human resources and productivity issues.

Managing Performance, Managing People is a practical, jargon-free reference guide for all managers and supervisors.  It explains the reasons behind the high and low performance levels of your people, and helps you manage the key factors that affect these performance levels, such as:

• role clarity
• competence
• values
• environment
• preference fit
• rewards and feedback

Presented in a clear and easy-to-understand 'performance model', these key performance factors are the focus of this timely book.  Managing more effectively is about all Managing Performance, Managing People.

Edition details

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1740096169
• ISBN 13: 9781740096164
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200