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The issue of performance management has not been a popular concept on schools. It seems that performance appraisal or evaluations are widely used terms in assessing the performance of teachers. However, these days the issue of performance management that focuses mainly on the professional development of teachers becomes agenda in most education system. However, limited academic literature exists on how to best-practiced performance management of teachers.Various approaches of performance measurement of teachers have been used and most of them emphasized on controlling mechanisms. Issues like feedback, motivation and communications with teachers in performance appraisal are not areas of attention. This book, therefore, provides distinctly different approaches of Performance evaluation that mainly emphasize on developing the performance of teachers rather than controlling. As a result, five interrelated dimensions of performance management are analyzed. The analysis should help shade some light on the performance management of teachers in Ethiopia, and should be especially useful to professional in education fields, or anyone else who may be interested in school affairs.

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Yohannes H. Mehari, MA: Studied Human Resource and Organizational Development in Education at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Currently Studying European Master of Higher Education at Oslo university, Tampere University and Aveiro University.

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