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The Guidebook for Performance Improvement: Working with Individuals and Organizations
ISBN: 978-0-7879-0353-4
Hardcover
650 pages
November 1996, Pfeiffer
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  • Table of Contents
Introduction: The Changing Realities of Human and Organizational Performance Improvement.

ORIGINS.

The Origins and Critical Attributes of Human Performance Technology.

Research and Development Origins of Performance Systems.

Social Responsibility.

DIRECTION FINDING AND GOAL SETTING.

A Strategic-Planning Framework: Mega Planning.

Preparing Performance Indicators and Objectives.

Needs-Assessment Basics.

A Systems Schema.

ANALYSIS.

Business-Unit Performance Analysis and Development.

Organizational Mapping.

Job-Task Analysis.

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT.

The Hierarchy of Interventions.

Applications of Total Quality Concepts to Organizational Effectiveness.

Developing Front-line Employees: A New Challenge for Achieving Organizational Effectiveness.

Job Aids.

Organizational Development for Human Performance Technologists.

IMPLEMENTATION.

Personnel Selection and Assignment.

Recruitment and Turnover.

Accountability for Staff Turnover.

Performance Management.

Program Management: Its Relationship to the Project.

Rewards and Performance Incentives.

Planning Change: Past, Present, Future.

Integrating People, Planning, and Change.

Performance Improvement in Developing Countries.

EVALUATION.

Evaluation: Seven Dimensions, Six Steps, Five Phases, and Four Guidelines.

Performance Is Easy to Monitor and Hard to Measure.

Developing Test and Assessment Items.

Quality Management/Continuous Improvement.

Performance Appraisal.

List of Contributors.

Index.