EDOD 669 - Performance Management

3 Credits

Delivery/Location: Instructor Driven , Online

This course was previously numbered VE 669.

Examines the characteristics and elements of the performance improvement and change process with special attention to what roles and responsibilities employees, managers and organizations engage in when improving individual and organizational performance.

Textbooks and Materials

Unless otherwise indicated, textbooks and materials are required and can be purchased at the CSU Bookstore.

  1. The Performance Challenge: Developing management systems to make employees your greatest asset (1999)
    Gilley, J.W., Boughton, N.W., & Maycunich, A.
    ISBN: 0738201618
    Not available at the CSU Bookstore

Instructors

Don Venneberg
(970) 491-2965
donald.venneberg@colostate.edu

Don Venneberg is Assistant Professor, Organizational Performance and Change at Colorado State University. His research interests are in workforce development, performance management and leading change in organizations. His recent publications are in the areas of mentoring and the recruitment, development and retention of older workers.

Don is a former senior executive with the US General Services Administration, where he successfully led, trained and developed people in both small teams and large organizations. He was also an instructor with the US Army Intelligence School and worked for a training company teaching supervisors and managers to effectively supervise and develop their team members to accomplish organizational objectives

Don holds a PhD in Education & Human Resource Studies (Organizational Performance and Change) from Colorado State University (CSU), Masters of Public Administration degrees from both the University of Colorado and the University of Southern California, and a BA degree in Political Science from CSU.