HBR's 10 Must Reads on Performance Management

Performance management is changing. Adapt your approach along with it.

For decades, performance management has been seen as an annual chore by managers and HR alike. But this process is changing, and there are ways to make it more effective for your organization and more useful for employees.

If you read nothing else on performance management in your organization, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you assess performance more accurately, have more-effective feedback conversations, and encourage the growth of your employees.

This book will inspire you to:

Learn where current performance management processes are falling short
Create sustainable performance across the organization
Deliver feedback that motivates and develops your team members
Help your people reach their professional goals
Identify your role in an employee's poor performance
Evaluate performance fairly, even in a remote environment
HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever-changing business environment.