BOOK

Next Generation Performance Management:
The Triumph of Science Over Myth and Superstition

This book provides a fresh perspective on what's wrong with performance management (PM) and how to fix it. No one knows more about PM than Alan.  He has experienced it from every perspective.  It has been done to him for 30+ years, he has done it to others for 25 years, he has designed and redesigned PM systems, he has owned it and worked with all the stakeholders, and he has studied deeply the science behind it.  He has also helped other companies improve and reinvent their processes.

Testimonials

  • When I found this book I had almost given up on finding a good scientifically based primary source for PM. Then I ran across this book, for once I was not disappointed. The book was everything it promised.

    Sam

  • Are you tired of every HR / Leadership / Management book that you read feeling like four HBR articles stretched into 320 pages? And are you equally tired of these books relying on anecdotes, poor/proprietary research, and speculation derived from corporations and VC firms with an incentive to create a narrative (hello every "gig economy" book!)? Then give this book a shot.

    SYoung27

  • Frankly put, this will be the best "professional" book in the HR domain that you'll read for some time. Dr. Colquitt carefully and logically critiques and dismantles current practice around performance management. This book will challenge some very ingrained beliefs you have about performance management, either what it should do or what consequences it should inform.

    Will

  • Dr. Colquitt has written the definitive statement for how companies need to approach their performance management (PM) processes differently, but he goes further by encouraging readers to explore some of the most hidden assumptions and paradigms that inevitably lead companies to adapt the latest PM fads. A must read for anyone who has ever had PM "done to them" and/or has "done it" to others.

    Harry

  • Evidence-based, science-based, relevant. This book is a framework that is simple and, well, quite intuitive to humanity (motivation, purpose, goals, progress, community and belonging). It's a call to refresh a system that is so very broken and yet blindly reinforced because...it's what we know and we are too afraid to take a leap of faith into the unknown of change? The book gives the faith to take that leap.

    Kristen

  • Full disclosure: this is an author after my own heart. I am an evidence-based practitioner and I fight the tide of "best practices" and "market research" on a daily basis. Well presented, evidence-based, and slightly wry at times, this book is a driving force towards a paradigm shift in the way we conceptualize and hopefully enact PM in the future.

    Greenlionplanck