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Article: Municipal government performance appraisal system practices: is the whole less than the sum of its parts?
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- Public Personnel Management
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
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One of the most controversial techniques in the manager's "tool box" for increasing work place productivity is performance appraisal. Municipal governments, like many other organizations, are striving (and in most cases struggling) to develop an effective appraisal system. One strategy for evaluating the effectiveness of municipal government performance appraisal systems is to analyze the individual components and attributes that constitute a performance appraisal system. If the parts are judged to be effective, does this guarantee an effective process? Unfortunately, the published research literature provides little guidance in evaluating the components of municipal ...