Conversations About Job Performance

Gordon, Michael E.; Stewart, Lee P.; Miller, Vernon

ISBN 10: 1606490745 / ISBN 13: 9781606490747

Published by Business Expert Press, 2011

About this Item

Organizational appraisals systems are often ineffective and result in unnecessary spending on the part of a company and unnecessary anxiety on the part of employees. Suitable for practitioners and advanced students, this book presents an alternative approach to the performance appraisal process that focuses on communication rather than evaluation. Num Pages: 265 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KJMV2; KJU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392. . 2012. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Conversations About Job Performance
• Publisher: Business Expert Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1606490745
• ISBN 13: 9781606490747
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Organizational appraisals systems are often ineffective and result in unnecessary spending on the part of a company and unnecessary anxiety on the part of employees. Written for practitioners and advanced students, this book presents an alternative approa

About the Authors

Michael E. Gordon received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in Industrial Psychology and is a Professor at the Rutgers Business School--New Brunswick. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, he taught for 20 years in the business school at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Gordon has extensive editorial experience as the founder and coeditor of Workplace Topics (a journal for the AFL-CIO) and as a member of the editorial boards of a number of academic journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology and Industrial and Labor Relations Review.

Vernon D. Miller received his PhD from the University of Texas in Speech Communication and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and in the Department of Management at Michigan State University. Miller's research appears in journals such as Journal of Applied Communication Research, Human Communication Research, Communication Monographs, and Academy of Management Review. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Management Communication Quarterly.