Performance management

"A strategic and integrated approach to increasing the effectiveness of organizations by improving the performance of the people who work in them and by developing the capabilities of teams and individual contributors." (Armstrong and Baron, 1998)

See also:

Appraisal
Assessment Centres
Balanced Scorecard
Behavioural Compliance
Benchmarking
Best Practice
Behavioural Consistency
Charisma
Cloning
Management by objectives (MBO)
Performance Assessment
Performance-related pay (PRP)
Personality
Talent Management

Based on the glossary section of Human Resource Management, 4th edition.

HRM Textbooks

Human Resource Management, 4th edition
by Alan Price
 Covers all the key aspects of HRM. Available from:
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Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
 Shortened version of Human Resource Management - concise analysis for non-specialists and one-semester courses.
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