Manage People, Not Personnel

Anyone who has supervised people knows that motivating employees and evaluating their performance can be frustrating and difficult. This book is designed to help managers carry out these tasks. The essays, which originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review, feature the best thinking available from leading practitioners and researchers about what works and what doesn't in getting top performance from employees. The book includes many of the classic works on employee motivation and performance appraisal by such prominent people as Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harry Levinson and Frederick Herzberg. Manage People, Not Personnel will be of interest to employers in large and small firms, human resource managers, and others who look to the Harvard Business Review for the best in practitioner-oriented articles in business management.