Can a positive approach to performance evaluation help accomplish your goals?

Business Horizons

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 269-279

  Cravens, Karen S ^a   Oliver, Elizabeth Goad ^b   Stewart, Jeanine S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOLLINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced scorecard; Performance evaluation; Performance measures; Positive organizational scholarship

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952010468     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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