Performance Management Systems

Arup Varma is Professor of Human Resource Management at Loyola University Chicago’s Quinlan School of Business.  His research has been published in several leading journals including Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology and Human Resource Management Review.  He is co-founder and past President of the Indian Academy of Management.Pawan Budhwar is the 50th Anniversary Professor of International HRM at Aston Business school.

Varma and Budhwar have put together a distinguished set of authors to look at a number of important aspects of performance management, with the ultimate goal of helping us understand why these systems succeed or fail and how to improve performance management in organizations.  I particularly like the analytic approach this volume takes, delving into a number of core topics (e.g., getting and using information about performance, goal setting, performance management and business strategy) that cut across a number of different types of performance management systems.  This volume makes a real contribution to understanding the critically important topic of performance management.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Performance Management in Context - Arup Varma and Pawan BudhwarChapter 2: Performance Management and Business Strategy - Subhash C. Kundu, Archana Mor and Naresh KhatriChapter 3: Goal Setting - Shailendra Singh, M. H. Minai and Arup VarmaChapter 4: Performance Information - Peter Norlander and Arup VarmaChapter 5: Defining and Measuring Performance - Caitlin Sockbeson and Angelo DeNisiChapter 6: Evaluating Performance - Caitlin Sockbeson and Angelo DeNisiChapter 7: Motivation and Feedback - Biyun Hu and Arup VarmaChapter 8: Supervisor-Subordinate Relationships - Darren Wang and Arup Varma Chapter 9: Performance Management for Expatriates - Arup Varma and Rosalie Tung Chapter 10: Implementing a Performance Management System - Arup Varma and Pawan Budhwar