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Tag Archives: Performance Appraisal
Annual Performance Evaluations are a Poor Management Practice
Sports provides visible examples of the futility of accurate performance appraisal. We have athletes who thousands of people devote a huge amount of time to dissecting their strengths and weaknesses and those evaluations are constantly shown to be wrong. Teams … Continue reading
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Tagged Career, Deming, Performance Appraisal, Psychology, theory of knowledge
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My Willing Worker Award
Here is an image of the employee of the quarter award I received from Bill Scherkenbach. I have received other awards and I don’t think those awards were given with any more understanding of the contributions to results due to … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Management, Performance Appraisal, Psychology, Systems thinking
Tagged awards, blame, Data, Performance Appraisal, Psychology
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Annual Performance Reviews Are Obsolete
Sam Goodner, the CEO of Catapult Systems, wrote about his decision to eliminate the annual performance appraisal. the most critical flaw of our old process was that the feedback itself was too infrequent and too far removed from the actual … Continue reading
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Tagged Data, feedback, in-process measures, managing people, Performance Appraisal
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Problems With Student Evaluations as Measures of Teacher Performance
Dr. Deming was, among other things a professor. He found the evaluation of professors by students an unimportant (and often counterproductive measure) – used in some places for awards and performance appraisal. He said for such a measure to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Customer focus, Data, Deming, Education, experiments, Performance Appraisal, Psychology, Science, system thinking
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Get Rid of the Performance Review
How Much Do You Hate Performance Reviews? by Bob Sutton Deming emphasized that forced rankings and other merit ratings that breed internal competition are bad management because they undermine motivation and breed contempt for management among people who, at least … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Deming, management, managing people, Performance Appraisal, respect for people
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Extrinsic Incentives Kill Creativity
If you read this blog, you know I believe extrinsic motivation is a poor strategy. This TED webcast Dan Pink discusses studies showing extrinsic rewards failing. This is a great webcast, definitely worth 20 minutes of your time. “you’ve got … Continue reading
An Introduction to Deming’s Management Ideas by Peter Scholtes (webcast)
An Introduction to Deming’s Management Teaching and Philosophy by Peter Scholtes – webcast from the Annual W. Edwards Deming Institute conference in Madison, Wisconsin, November 9th, 2008. My previous post on this speech: 6 Leadership Competencies. Next month, the Annual … Continue reading
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Dr. Deming Webcast on the 5 Deadly Diseases
The W. Edwards Deming Institute has posted Dr. Deming’s 1984 video on the 5 deadly diseases of western management. Lack of constancy of purpose Emphasis on short term profits – “creative” accounting, focus on quarterly profits Annual Performance Appraisals – … Continue reading
The Trouble with Performance Reviews by Jeffrey Pfeffer
The Trouble with Performance Reviews [the broken link was removed] by Jeffrey Pfeffer Managers don’t like giving appraisals, and employees don’t like getting them. Perhaps they’re not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved for decades: Traditional … Continue reading
Toyota Develops Thought-controlled Wheelchair
Toyota has developed a thought-controlled wheelchair (along with Japanese government research institute, RIKEN, and Genesis Research Institute). Honda has also developed a system that allows a person to control a robot through thoughts. Both companies continue to invest in innovation … Continue reading
