7. PERFORMANCE CATEGORY
LIST OF CORE PUBLISHED REFERENCES
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  1. ABOLISHING PERFORMANCE APPRAISALS ---
    WHY THEY BACKFIRE AND WHAT TO DO INSTEAD     by Tom Coens and
    Mary Jenkins (Forward by Peter Block). Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2000

  2. THE ACHIEVER'S PROFILE --- 100 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TO SHARPEN YOUR EXECUTIVE INSTINCTS by Allan Cox. American Management Association, 1988

  3. BUSINESS --- THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE By Perseus Publishing, 2002

  4. CAUSES OF FAILURE IN PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL AND SUPERVISION
    --- A GUIDE TO ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION FOR HUMAN RESOURCES
    PROFESSIONALS     by Joe Baker. Quorum Books, 1988

  5. CHANGE IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS --- CLAIM YOUR CHANGE POWER!
    by Pat McLagan. Berrett-Koehler, 2001, 2002

  6. THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO PERFORMANCE APPRAISALS
    by Adele Margrave and Robert Gorden. Alpha Books/Macmillan, 2001

  7. COUNTY LIBRARY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION WORKSHOP RULES

  8. EAT THAT FROG! --- 21 GREAT WAYS TO STOP PROCRASTINATING
    AND GET MORE DONE IN LESS TIME     by Brian Tracy. Berrett-Koehler, 2000

  9. EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE APPRAISALS --- A PRACTICAL
    GUIDE     by Robert B. Maddux. Crisp, 1993

  10. EFFECTIVE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN
    by Diana M. Thomas, Ann T. Hinckley, and Elizabeth R. Eisenbach. Academic Press, 1981

  11. THE EMOTIONAL ENERGY FACTOR --- THE SECRETS HIGH-ENERGY PEOPLE USE TO BEAT EMOTIONAL FATIGUE by Mira Kirshenbaum. Delacourte Press, 2003

  12. THE EMPOWERED MANAGER --- POSITIVE POLITICAL SKILLS AT WORK
    by Peter Block. Jossey-Bass, 1991

  13. EMPOWERMENT --- A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR BUILDING A COMMITTED WORKFORCE
    Cynthia D. Scott and Dennis T. Jaffe. Crisp, 1991

  14. EVALUATING LIBRARY STAFF --- A PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL SYSTEM
    by Patricia Belcastro. American Library Association, 1998

  15. EVALUATING THE EVALUATORS, "Human Resources Magazine," Donna Stringer. October 1995, v40 n10, pp. 46-50 (5 pages)

  16. EXCERPTS FROM THE TREASURY OF QUOTES
    by Brian Tracy. Strategic Marketing Group, 1998

  17. FALLBACK POSITION --- PREPARING A CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR THE WORST CASE SCENARIO by John E. Arnold. Exurba Publishing, 2003

  18. FINDING AND KEEPING GREAT EMPLOYEES
    by Jim Harris and Joan Brannick. American Management Association, 1999

  19. GETTING PROMOTED --- REAL STRATEGIES FOR ADVANCING
    YOUR CAREER     by Harry E. Chambers. Perseus Books, 1999

  20. GETTING RESULTS! --- THE SECRET TO MOTIVATING YOURSELF (previously published as "GMP = The Greatest Management Principle in the World") by Michael LeBoeuf. Berkley, 1985, 1989

  21. HIGH ENERGY HABITS --- THE BUSY PERSON'S GUIDE TO MORE ENERGY --- WITHOUT DIETS OR EXERCISE! by Bill Ford. Pocket Books, 2002

  22. HOW TO DO A SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL
    by William S. Swan with Philip Margulies. John Wiley & Sons, 1991

  23. HOW TO IMPROVE HUMAN PERFORMANCE --- BEHAVIORISM
    IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY     by Thomas K. Connellan. Harper & Row, 1978

  24. HOW TO USE (AND MISUSE) STATISTICS
    by Gregory A. Kimble. Prentice-Hall Inc., 1978

  25. IF ARISTOTLE RAN GENERAL MOTORS --- THE NEW SOUL OF BUSINESS
    by Tom Morris. Henry Holt, 1997

  26. LAW FOR K-12 LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIANS
    by Lee Ann Torrans, Libraries Unlimited, 2003

  27. LEADERSHIP THROUGH PEOPLE SKILLS by Robert E. Lefton and Victor R. Buzzotta. 2004

  28. LIFETIME LEGAL GUIDE by Steven Mitchell Sack. Book-of-the-Month Club, 1996

  29. LOVE 'EM OR LOSE 'EM --- GETTING GOOD PEOPLE TO STAY
    by Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans. Berrett-Koehler, 1999

  30. MANAGEMENT OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR ---UTILIZING HUMAN RESOURCES
    by Paul Hersey and Kenneth H. Blanchard. Prentice-Hall, 4th edition, 1982.

  31. MANAGING CHANGE --- A HOW-TO-DO-IT MANUAL FOR PLANNING,
    IMPLEMENTING AND EVALUATING CHANGE IN LIBRARIES
    by Susan C. Curzon (A former L. A. County Library Administrator). Neal-Schuman, 1989

  32. THE MEMORY BIBLE --- AN INNOVATIVE STRATEGY FOR KEEPING YOUR BRAIN YOUNG
    by Gary Small. Hyperion, 2002

  33. MORE TIPS FOR GIVING EFFECTIVE EMPLOYEE EVALUATIONS, part 2, by Bob Rosner, Allan Halcrow and Alan Levins. Corner Office, ABC Waking Wounded, July 11, 2003, (copyright 2002)

  34. THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER by Kenneth Blanchard. William Morrow, 1982

  35. ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
    3rd ed. by Robert Kreitner and Angelo Kinicki. Irwin, 1989, 1992, 1995

  36. OVERCOMING RESISTANCE --- A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PRODUCING CHANGE IN THE WORKPLACE by Jerald M. Jellison. Simon & Schuster, 1993.

  37. THE PERFORMANCE CHALLENGE --- DEVELOPING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS TO MAKE EMPLOYEES YOUR ORGANIZATION'S GREATEST ASSET by Jerry W. Gilley, Nathaniel W. Boughton and Ann Maycunich. Perseus Books, 1999

  38. POWER OF FULL ENGAGEMENT --- MANAGING ENERGY, NOT TIME, IS THE KEY TO HIGH PERORMANCE AND PERSONAL RENEWAL by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz. Free Press, 2003

  39. PSYCHOLOGY --- TEACH YOURSELF by Nicky Hayes. Teach Yourself Books, 2002

  40. PSYCHOLOGY APPLIED TO WORK --- AN INTRODUCTION
    TO INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY     by Paul M. Muchinsky. Brooks Cole, 4th edition, 1993

  41. SAVING YOUR BRAIN --- THE REVOLUTIONARY PLAN TO BOOST BRAIN POWER, IMPROVE MEMORY, AND PROTECT YOURSELF AGAINST AGING AND ALZHEIMER'S by Jeff Victoroff. Bantam Books, 2002

  42. SELF-SABOTAGE --- HOW TO STOP IT AND SOAR TO SUCCESS
    by Martha Baldwin. Warner Books, 1987

  43. THE SERVANT --- A SIMPLE STORY ABOUT THE TRUE ESSENCE OF LEADERSHIP
    by James C. Hunter. Prima Publishing, 1998

  44. THE 17 ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF A TEAM PLAYER --- BECOMING THE KIND OF PERSON EVERY TEAM WANTS by John C. Maxwell. Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2002

  45. THE TEN DUMBEST MISTAKES SMART PEOPLE MAKE AND HOW TO AVOID THEM --- SIMPLE AND SURE TECHNIQUES FOR GAINING GREATER CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE by Arthur Freeman & Rose DeWolf. HarperPerennial, 1992

  46. SMART TRAINING --- THE MANAGER'S GUIDE TO TRAINING
    FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE     by Clay Carr. McGraw-Hill, 1992

  47. 10 MINUTE GUIDE TO LEADERSHIP by Andrew J. Dubrin. Macmillan Spectrum/Alpha Books, 1997

  48. UNWRITTEN LAWS --- THE UNOFFICIAL RULES OF LIFE --- AS HANDED DOWN BY MURPHY AND OTHER SAGES by Hugh Rawson. Castle Books, 2002

  49. WE GOT FIRED --- AND IT'S THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO US by Harvey Mackay. Ballantine Books, 2004

  50. WHAT EVERY SUCCESSFUL WOMAN KNOWS --- 12 BREAKTHROUGH STRATEGIES TO GET THE POWER AND IGNITE YOUR CAREERby William J. Morin. McGraw-Hill, 2001

  51. WHAT MANAGEMENT IS --- HOW IT WORKS AND WHY IT'S EVERYONE'S BUSINESS
    by Joan Magretta with Nan Stone. The Free Press, 2002

  52. WIN/WIN MANAGEMENT --- LEADING PEOPLE IN THE NEW WORKPLACE
    by George Fuller. Prentice Hall Press, 1998

  53. "YES" OR "NO" --- THE GUIDE TO BETTER DECISIONS --- A STORY by Spencer Johnson. HarperCollins Publishers, 1991
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