This week’s topics
Why improving performance matters to the individual and to the business
- Develop own skills
- Enhanced promotion opportunities
- Increased productivity
- Increased quality
What you will be able to do
- 3.2 Explain the importance to an individual of improving own performance.
- 3.3 Explain the importance to a business of effective individual and team performance.
Study materials
Further resources
- Principles of Management, ch. 11.3: Performance management · PDF · OpenStax (2019); pp. 305–307 · for registered students
- Principles of Management, ch. 11.6: Talent development and succession planning · PDF · OpenStax (2019), training needs and development; pp. 315–326 · for registered students
- Introduction to Business 2e, ch. 8.5: Performance planning and evaluation · PDF · OpenStax (2026); pp. 266–267 · for registered students
- Performance Appraisal and Innovative Behavior in the Digital Era · Open-access article · Curzi et al. (2019), Frontiers in Psychology. How well-designed appraisal links individual targets to strategy and encourages new ideas. · for registered students
- The future of feedback: Motivating performance improvement through future-focused feedback · Open-access article · Gnepp et al. (2020), PLOS ONE. Experiments showing appraisal feedback works better when it focuses on next steps rather than past faults. · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
