Business forums

Business forum by Professor Herman Aguinis provided a review of current research findings on performance management as well as a discussion of specific situations and challenges faced by workshop participants and their organisations.

In March of 2007 Professor Herman Aguinis ran a session on performance management for local practitioners. Herman is a Professor of Management and the holder of the Mehalchin Term Professorship of Management in The Business School at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Centre. He has been a visiting scholar at universities in the People's Republic of China (Beijing and Hong Kong), Malaysia, Singapore, Argentina, France, Spain and Australia.

He has published over 50 refereed journal articles in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied PsychologyOrganisational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, and elsewhere; has written over 30 book chapters and other miscellaneous publications; and has delivered over 130 presentations at professional conferences. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology, and the recipient of several recognitions and awards including the University of Colorado at Denver Best Researcher of the Year Award (2004), the Academy of Management Research Methods Division Advancement of Organisational Research Methodology Award (2001), the University of Colorado at Denver Business School Dean's Scholar Award (1999 & 2003) and the Journal of Organisational Behavior Best Paper of the Year Award (1996).

Herman is the author of a text on Performance Management (to be published by Prentice Hall in 2007). The forum provided participants with a review of current research findings on performance management as well as a discussion of specific situations and challenges faced by workshop participants and their organisations.