Discussion: "The Dallas Mavericks".
A recent article in thefield of human resourcemanagement is entitledEveryone HatesPerformance Evaluation and it has becomevery popular among managersand employees alike. The reasonfor the popularity is that most ofus have had (or know of) negativeexperiences with performanceevaluation and thus the titleresonates with us personally. Performanceevaluations are oftendisliked because they tend to besubjective and often not related toimportantperformance objectives.For example, all too many performanceappraisals rely solely onsubjectiveindividual traits like initiativeor professionalism or, even worse,attractiveness, height, or charisma.Aware of the common weaknessesin evaluation, and how thoseweaknesses manifest themselves inthe evaluation of professional basketballplayers,Mark Cuban, theowner of the Dallas Mavericks NBAbasketball team, decided to dothings a different way. Partneringwith Wayne Winston, a professor ofdecision sciences at Indiana University,and author of the book Mathletics, Cuban sought to evaluate hisplayers in amore objective way-one in which their evaluation wasnot tied solely to individual statistics.
Read the above case "The Dallas Mavericks".
Would it be worth a significant investment in performance evaluation? Why or why not? What benefits could be achieved?
The response should include a reference list. Double-space, using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.