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# Get Rid of the Performance Review!: How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start Managing--and Focus on What Really Matters

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    For everyone yearning to fulfill this provocative title...
  

*by M***D on Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2015*

Samuel Culbert's book is as direct and disruptive as its title, and yet his examples and logic lead to a compelling alternative to the tired, demoralizing practice of performance reviews as so many of us endured them - whether administering or receiving them. His model of ongoing, collaborative coaching and supervisory (two-way) feedback offers a framework for every organization to build on the strengths of both the front line and the leadership team as a team, no longer pitted against one another as judge and defendant. I would recommend it for anyone who has ever wanted to follow the advice of this provocative title while making their organization more competitive and ultimately developing the collective competence of everyone involved. Shared metrics and performance standards, a code of conduct, externally derived feedback from customers, and financial results can all replace this practice with energizing alternatives to reward and retain the best talent. Culbert is right: performance reviews are a dreaded exercise too often used to rationalize unpaid raises and bonuses or worse, the failure to generate a bonus pool from low morale in the first place. They should be abandoned, once and for all.

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    Dr. Culbert makes a strong argument to replace the Performance Review with Something Better
  

*by H***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2016*

This was the first book on this topic that I read. Dr. Culbert presents a clear case against the effectiveness of traditional performance reviews. As I read the book I resonated with his observations regarding what the performance review was really all about (power grab, command and control, etc.) The alternative that he proposes is actually an undeveloped concept; the Performance Preview. Recently there have been several fully developed alternatives that have appeared in print. I found the alternative that worked best for my situation (a large group of physicians) in the writings of another author. Dr. Tim Baker's The End of the Performance Review proposes a fully developed roadmap for implementing a "performance preview" as proposed by Dr. Culbertson. We are in the process of implementing it. Dr. Culbert's book is the manifesto that motivates to action. Dr. Culbert's words clearly made the argument that encouraged me to look for something to replace the Performance Review.

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    Depicts "management sciene" run amok
  

*by A***. on Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2011*

This book has a relevance to the current jobs crisis.  Employers' practice of not hiring the unemployed in favor of the already employed may well be a legacy of the performance review-ranking system which corporations use to evaluate employee performance.  Samuel A. Culbert's 2010 book, "Get Rid of the Performance Review," describes management's charge to rank employees in a "forced bell curve" comprising 20% most effective, 70% effective, and 10% least effective, in which the bottom group faces termination within one year.  This may seem fair until one learns that the group being ranked is usually a group of homogeneously high performers such that a scientifically-based measurement of their performance distribution could not be honestly fitted by a bell-curve, hence Professor Culbert's use of "forced bell curve" and of management's "search for failure," meaning that management has not done its job until it finds candidates for the bottom peer group.  And employees showing the most independence and initiative are usually at the highest risk.  Milton said it best,  "Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?  The infernal serpent; he it was, whole guile  Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived  The mother of mankind, what time his pride  Had cast him out from heaven, with all his host  Of rebel angels, by whose aid aspiring  To set himself in glory above his peers...."Without a doubt the first employees to be laid off - to to asked to leave the company, to be cast out from heaven -  are the bottom 10%, which may be why the unemployed in search of a job are lepered by employers.This is "management science" run amok.  There is a chain of ranked employees from 1 to N, and one can find out what one's "little n" number is by asking his boss.  An employee can move up from position n to position n+1 only if the person already occupying position n+1 is moved down to position n.  This ranking is done in slave-mart style by bosses in ranking sessions bidding up or down employees who are not present and who are known only to his or her immediate boss and usually not at all to the other bosses.  It is understood that one's immediate boss lobbies for his own people, whether with a wink or not.  Thus the bosses' own status, personal strength, and mud-pot perceptions of job importance at a given time - all play a role in where an employee winds up on the chain.Anyone can peruse a text on statistics, even one published in a business context, and find a diversity of mathematically-known statistical distributions, among which is the bell-curve distribution, whose central limit theorem states that the sum of a large number of random variables is distributed about a single mean value.  But usually in employee ranking the number of "random variables" - think employees being ranked - is not large and is not random but homogeneous.  If management science really was a science, managers would have to work hard to measure the true distribution of employee performance, which probably would not fit one of the analytically-known textbook examples.

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