scholarly journals A Review of Culbert’s Book “Get Rid of the Performance Review”: An Impractical Suggestion

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Julie Conzelmann
Keyword(s):  
Employee Performance ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Organizational Process ◽  
Journal Publication ◽  
Performance Review ◽  
Performance Reviews ◽  
Doctoral Research

When selecting my topic focused on leaders recognizing employee contributions during performance reviews for my doctoral dissertation and post-doctoral research and publications, one book continued to appear in my reviewed article file Samuel A. Culbert’s: Get Rid of the Performance Review! How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start Managing-and Focus on What Really Matters. Although I cited this book in my dissertation and a subsequent journal publication to substantiate at least one dissenting perspective of the need for employee performance reviews, I struggled to fully understand Culbert’s perspective of this organizational process. A recent re-read of “Get Rid of the Performance Review!” prompted me to write a review and explain why I disagree with 99.9% of Culbert’s now antiquated opinion and why I believe his suggestion is impractical for organizational wellbeing.

Conducting Midterm Performance Reviews: An Exercise for Teaching Performance Management

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Rebecca A. Bull Schaefer
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Performance Feedback ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Performance Management Systems ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Performance Review ◽  
Performance Reviews ◽  
Multiple Measure ◽  
Full Class

Although the annual performance review has received much criticism from practitioners and researchers alike, organizations continue to use coaching and/or reviews to maximize employee effectiveness and minimize liabilities. A semester class is a great context to practice skills relating to tracking and reviewing performance. This article describes how management instructors can implement performance reviews as an experiential exercise designed to improve students’ confidence related to receiving performance feedback. During a “Performance Appraisal Week,” instructors conduct individual performance reviews designed to discuss individual students’ class performance and elicit student–teacher feedback. Students experience the emotions of a professional face-to-face review, practice multiple-source and multiple-measure feedback interpretation, engage in performance-related dialogue, and consider plans to meet goals. During a full-class reflection and debrief, students apply concepts and discuss elements of performance management systems, and they build their confidence in how to navigate performance-related feedback discussions.

Redefining the boundaries of Public Administration

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek R Slagle ◽  
Adam Williams
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Previous Analysis ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Dramatic Decline ◽  
Dissertation Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship ◽  
Core Issues ◽  
Research Classification

The scope of the article is reinterpretation of the question posed by Rodgers and Rodgers, namely, are Public Administration scholarship produced by “disciplined purists” – Public Administration scholars producing Public Administration research – or “undisciplined mongrels”? The methodology diverges from previous analysis through examination of doctoral dissertation research classification, rather than faculty output in publications. Concomitantly, Biglan classification of disciplines was used as a framework to determine disciplinary classifications of “undisciplined” or interdisciplinary scholarship. Findings indicate that from 2000 to 2015, there were shifts toward Public Administration as a “purist” discipline. Not only are there changes toward a distinct discipline but also steady declines in outside discipline production of Public Administration doctoral research. The analysis demonstrated a statistically significant increase in categorization of Public Administration scholarship for subjects generally accepted as core issues. Another noted change was dramatic decline for the Doctor of Public Administration degree as the field redefined boundaries.

Employee Performance Reviews

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-87
Author(s):  
Sandra A. Cericola
Keyword(s):  
Employee Performance ◽  
Performance Reviews

Appraising clever people: lessons from introducing performance reviews for academics in a UK University

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hedda Bird
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Performance Review ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Performance Reviews ◽  
Practical Challenge ◽  
Set Up

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to build understanding of how to engage a highly educated workforce with the benefits of performance management through sharing the lessons learned from introducing performance reviews (appraisals) into an academic environment. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a case study of a four-year programme in a UK higher education establishment. The author was closely involved in the last two years of the programme, and completed a detailed evaluation of the programme for the client. Findings – Performance management creates significant value within a highly educated workforce through bringing together individual capability and expertise to focus on delivering the strategy. Obstacles to success such as routine complaints of “time-wasting” and “pointlessness” can be overcome by wide and deep engagement with employees throughout the design and development of the approach. Research limitations/implications – This is a single case study; however, the author has worked on many similar programmes with highly educated work forces with very similar results. Practical implications – The vast majority of staff positively want a high-quality performance review; the practical challenge is to channel this desire into shared ownership and responsibility for the success of performance review in practice. Originality/value – Literature abounds with analysis of what is wrong with performance review, this paper is a rarer piece in that it develops our understanding of how to set up performance management and review for success.

scholarly journals Building knowledge with theory: Unpacking complexity in doctoral writing

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirstin Wilmot ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Social World ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Crucial Aspect ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Dissertation Writing ◽  
Draft Version ◽  
Doctoral Writing ◽  
Over Time

The use of theory to analyse and interpret empirical data is a valued practice in much social science doctoral research. A crucial aspect of this practice involves generating sophisticated theoretical understandings and critiques of phenomena in our social world. Despite the importance of theory, however, few concrete explanations of how to ‘theorise’ exist in literature. This paper addresses this gap by demonstrating how a set of conceptual tools can be used to unpack what the craft of theorising looks like in explicit terms, and to reveal how this ability develops over time during the drafting process of dissertation writing. It does this by drawing on select texts from a successful doctoral dissertation, as well as an earlier draft version. In doing so, the paper provides an in-depth explanation of an essential process of doctoral research that is inherently known by many supervisors, yet seldom unpacked in explicit terms.

scholarly journals On the Evolution of Library and Information Science Doctoral Dissertation Topics in China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanhui Song ◽  
Li Zhu ◽  
Fei Shu
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations ◽  
Doctoral Advisors

Previous Studies presented a radical change in Libray and Information Science (LIS) research topics in North America. This paper investigates LIS doctoral dissertations in China in terms of their topics and interdisciplinarity in the past 20 years. Results don’t find the significant change of LIS dissertation topics in China but reveal that the increase of LIS doctoral research on Information Science is attributed to the increase of admissions to the major Information Science comparing with other majors (Library Science and Archive Studies). This study also shows that the academic background of LIS doctoral advisors does not affect the interdisciplinarity of their student’s doctoral dissertations in China.

Early Medical Dissertation Research on Tennessee Geology

1985 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
James Corgan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Dissertation Research ◽  
Source Of Information

Unpublished doctoral dissertation that predate American Ph.D. programs are an underutilized source of information on the geology of Tennessee, and on other geological topics. The nature of early doctoral research is briefly described and four pioneer dissertations, submitted in M.D. programs, are reviewed. The first dates from 1822 and the last from 1840. Each has continuing academic value, but must be viewed within the context of nineteenth century culture.

At random - Employee performance reviews

Computer ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 12-15
Author(s):  
B. Colwell
Keyword(s):  
Employee Performance ◽  
Performance Reviews

Incorporating Performance Reviews into the Business Writing Classroom

1997 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 52-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Bergland
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Writing Classroom ◽  
Business Writing ◽  
Docu Ments ◽  
Performance Review ◽  
Performance Reviews ◽  
Final Grades ◽  
A Performance

Some instructors undervalue or ignore such short assignments as peer cri tiques, progress memos, and practice documents when they calculate final grades, while others over-emphasize these documents, assigning each a critique and grade, which results in more work for them and re-emphasizes the impor tance of the grade to the student. One strategy for fairly assessing these docu ments is to incorporate them in a performance review at the middle and end of the course. Such a review also helps prepare studerus for the evaluation process they will face and use in the workplace.

scholarly journals The Role Of Student Performance Reviews In A Teacher Preparation Program: Can This Teacher Candidate Be Saved?

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina G. Dorsch ◽  
Diane H. Jackman
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Teacher Preparation Program ◽  
Teacher Preparation Programs ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
Performance Review ◽  
Performance Reviews

Teacher preparation programs assess students’ knowledge, skills, and dispositions throughout the program.  When concerns about student performance arise, the Student Performance Review is a vehicle for “saving” teacher candidates.

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