Turning Research Into Results: A Guide to Selecting the Right Performance Solutions (NA)

This book is the least scholarly of all the assigned readings in my program. The authors cite themselves through most of it, rendering it an opinion piece, there is no detail to back up any of the claims, and inappropriate language is used (the term suicidal appeared multiple times in chapter 4 or 5 to reference "bad idea"). I'm attending USC and this is written by prior USC instructors, gives a very bad impression of the validity of the program.

This book offers a wealth of information! Something to learn from each chapter can can be applied.

Came on time and good book.

My husband needed this book for a class he is taking. It was exactly what he needed and it got here fast.

Easy to read, and very helpful.

Great book. Fast delivery

This book is all you need to understand the process of performance improvement in organizations, and the "active ingredients" that impact performance. The book separates the snake oil and fads from solutions that are supported by research. It gives clear and research-based guidelines for diagnosing the causes of performance gaps and selecting solutions for knowledge, motivation, and organizational problems. Case studies illustrate the application of the model and rules. In addition, the book describes how to reliably and validly evaluate the effects of performance solutions and identifies flaws in some common approaches to evaluation. The book answers the kinds of "why" and "what if" questions that rarely get addressed. It includes a powerful model of motivated performance that can be used to address any motivational problems. This book gives one the arguments and references to support organizational development and training practices and also the arguments and evidence to abandon practices that have been shown to either be ineffective or to do more harm than good. If you want to understand why what you are doing works (or doesn't work), you need to read this book. It is unlike any other to date in the field of performance improvement and training. It takes the profession to a higher level and is a must for anyone working in the area of organizational development, performance improvement, or training.

Clark and Estes wrote terrific book about researching performance problems within an organization and really showing an effective process on how to monitor and assess what are the true problems and causes of under performance in an organization. They then show the process of strategizing and implementing changes that guide and improve human performance in organizations that have found themselves in an ineffective struggle with some part of their operations.