Performance-Based Management: What Every Manager Should Do to Get Results

A consulting firm president who has published other books on performance-based management offers specific guidelines on countering common organizational missteps in such areas as goal- setting, employee-selection, and giving feedback and rewards. The CD-ROM provides additional tools. Intended primarily for managers and secondarily for consultants. Includes summary charts and a few references. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Judith Hale, Ph.D., is president of the consulting firm, Hale Associates. Their services include consultation on alignment, assessment, certification, evaluation, and integration of performance improvement systems, performance management and strategic planning. She is also the author of The Performance Consultant's Fieldbook, Performance-Based Certification, and Performance-Based Evaluation all from Pfeiffer.