Special Merit : Pay For Performance - Evaluating Performance Appraisal Reference Library

Top : Special Merit : Pay For Performance - Evaluating Performance Appraisal - This complete free book is a review of the literature and body of research regarding the efficacy of pay for performance and merit pay. Sections on both private and public sector. Here you can go through it chapter by chapter.

Book References: Pay For Performance, Performance Appraisals, Merit Pay, Civil Service Effectiveness

By George T. Milkovich and Alexandra K. Wigdor - If you are looking for good references on merit pay and topics related to this book, this is a good source of references. (Added: 28-Dec-2009 Hits: 57 )

Executive Summary (Six Pages)

By George T. Milkovich and Alexandra K. Wigdor - Executive summary explains the purpose of the project, scope and findings. Good if you are in a hurry. Here's a quote: This report reviews the research on performance appraisal and on its use in linking pay to performance. It was written to assist federal policy makers as they undertake a revision of the federal government's system of performance appraisal and merit pay for mid-level managers, called the Performance Management and Recognition System. (Added: 28-Dec-2009 Hits: 52 )

Findings and Conclusions Regarding Performance Appraisal and Merit Pay (Chapter 8)

By George T. Milkovich and Alexandra K. Wigdor - In the course of our investigations it became clear that the theoretical and empirical literatures have posited at least four different types of benefits in discussing performance-based pay systems: (1) positive effects on the work behaviors of individual employees (including decisions to join an organization, attend, perform, and remain); (2) increased organization-level effectiveness; (3) facilitating socialization and communication; and (4) enhancing the perceived legitimacy of an organization to important internal and external constituencies. (Added: 28-Dec-2009 Hits: 47 )

Introduction (Chapter 1)

By George T. Milkovich and Alexandra K. Wigdor - the committee was asked to review current scientific knowledge about performance appraisal and the use of performance appraisal in merit pay allocations, especially for managers and professionals. We were also asked to examine performance appraisal and pay for performance practices of private-sector employers and, if possible, to recommend models that federal policy makers might consider in revising the merit pay plans currently in place. (Added: 28-Dec-2009 Hits: 46 )

Pay for Performance: Evaluating Performance Appraisal and Merit Pay-Front Matter

By eorge T. Milkovich and Alexandra K. Wigdor - Preface and Overview, plus table of contents for this book, Pay for Performance: Evaluating Performance Appraisal and Merit Pay George T. Milkovich and Alexandra K. Wigdor, Editors, with Renae F. Broderick and Anne S. Mavor (Added: 28-Dec-2009 Hits: 49 )

Pay for Performance: Perspectives and Research (Chapter 5)

By George T. Milkovich and Alexandra K. Wigdor - This chapter is organized around these points. The first section describes merit, individual, and group incentive pay for performance plans and classifies them in a matrix formed by two major dimensions of plan design. We next use this matrix to review research on the influence of different pay for performance plans on the pay system objectives that organizations typically report—improving the attraction/retention/performance of successful employees, fair treatment and equity, and cost regulation, with the trade-offs among other pay objectives it entails. When relevant, we describe the contextual conditions that appear to influence plan effects or are associated with unintended, negative consequences when pay for performance plans are used (Added: 28-Dec-2009 Hits: 43 )

Performance Appraisal: Definition, Measurement, and Application (Chapter 4)

By George T. Milkovich and Alexandra K. Wigdor - oals: to create a measure that accurately assesses the level of an individual's job performance and to create an evaluation system that will advance one or more operational functions in an organization. Although all performance appraisal systems encompass both goals, they are reflected differently in two major research orientations, one that grows out of the measurement tradition, the other from human resources management and other fields that focus on the organizational purposes of performance appraisal. (Added: 28-Dec-2009 Hits: 57 )