The Changing Nature of Performance: Implications for Staffing, Motivation, and Development / Edition 1

by Daniel R. Ilgen, Elaine D. Pulakos

Overview

Radical changes in the workplace continue to impact the way we measure and manage employee performance, making the human resource professional's job more complex than ever. In The Changing Nature of Performance, a stellar group of contributors offers concrete suggestions on how the HR practitioner can cope. They examine seven major change factors that continue to influence individual performance—from the shift to team-based work to the interweaving of jobs with technology—and show readers how to develop effective HR policies and practices accordingly.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787946258
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/12/1999
Series:	J-B SIOP Frontiers Series , #5
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 9.43(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Daniel R. Ilgen is the editor of The Changing Nature of Performance: Implications for Staffing, Motivation, and Development, published by Wiley.

Elaine D. Pulakos is the editor of The Changing Nature of Performance: Implications for Staffing, Motivation, and Development, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Foreword.

Preface.

The Authors.

Introduction: Employee Performance in Today's Organizations.

CHANGES IN WORK THAT IMPACT PERFORMANCE.

Technology and Performance.

Performance Assessment in Unique Jobs.

Contingent Employees: Individual and OrganizationalConsiderations.

Continuous Learning.

Customer-Driven Employee Performance.

Leadership and the Changing Nature of Performance.

Developing Adaptive Teams: A Theory of Compilation and PerformanceAcross Levels and Time.

THE EFFECT OF CHANGE ON THREE KEY PROCESSES -
STAFFING, MOTIVATION, AND EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT.

The Challenge of Staffing a Postindustrial Workplace.

Managing Work Role Performance: Challenges for Twenty-First CenturyOrganizations and their Employees.

Performance and Employee Development.

CONCLUDING REMARKS.

The Definition and Measurement of Performance in the New Age.

Name Index.

Subject Index.

Editorial Reviews

Contributions discuss major types of changes in the modern world of work, including in technology, job design, type of workforce, training methodology, external control, leadership, and work structure, with suggestions on how human relations practitioners can develop suitably responsive policy and practice. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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