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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822320003321

Autore

Guerra-Lopez Ingrid

Titolo

Performance evaluation : proven approaches for improving program and organizational performance / / Ingrid Guerra-Lopez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : Jossey-Bass, c2008

ISBN

1-119-46120-0

1-283-64514-9

1-118-50489-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 304 p. : ill

Classificazione

336.43

658.3/125

Disciplina

658.3/125

Soggetti

Employees - Rating of

Organizational effectiveness

Performance standards

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-293) and index

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-293) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foundations of evaluation -- Principles of performance-based evaluation -- Overview of existing evaluation mode -- Kirkpatrick's four levels of evaluation -- Phillip's return-on-investment methodology -- Brinkerhoff"s success case method -- The impact evaluation process -- The CIPP model -- Evaluating evaluations -- Data -- Data collection -- Analysis of evaluation data: tools and techniques -- Communicating the findings -- Common errors in evaluation -- Continual improvement -- Contracting for evaluation services -- Intelligence gathering for decision making: -- The future of evaluation in performance improvement.

Sommario/riassunto

Performance Evaluation is a hands-on text for practitioners, researchers, educators, and students in how to use scientifically-based evaluations that are both rigorous and flexible. Author Ingrid Guerra-López, an internationally-known evaluation expert, introduces the foundations of evaluation and presents the most applicable models for the performance improvement field. Her book offers a wide variety of tools and techniques that have proven successful and is organized to illustrate evaluation in the context of continual performance



improvement.