Evaluation Activities in Organizations
- Much of the information in this topic is adapted from the book Field Guide to Nonprofit Program Design, Marketing and Evaluation.
- Guidelines for evaluating the process and results of organizational change are included in the books Field Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development and Field Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development with Nonprofits .
Evaluation is carefully collecting information about something in order to make necessary decisions about it. There are a large number and wide variety of evaluations. Evaluation is closely related to performance management (whether about organizations, groups, processes or individuals), which includes identifying measures to assess progress toward achieving results.
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Learn More in the Library’s Blogs Related to Evaluations
In addition to the articles on this current page, see the following blogs which have posts related to this Evaluations. Scan down the blog’s page to see various posts. Also see the section “Recent Blog Posts” in the sidebar of the blog or click on “next” near the bottom of a post in the blog.
- Library’s Business Planning Blog
- Library’s Building a Business Blog
- Library’s Strategic Planning Blog
General Guidelines About Doing All Forms of Evaluation
- How to Design Successful Evaluation and Assessment Plans
- Internal Eval Week: Pamela Bishop on Working as a New Internal Evaluator
- Internal Evaluation Week: Debbie Cohen on Working with External Evaluators
- Internal Eval Week: Anthony Kim on Balancing Dual Roles as an Internal Evaluator
- Stanley Capela and Ariana Brooks on Planting a Seed to Overcome Resistance to Evaluation
- Improving evaluation questions and answers: Getting actionable answers for real-world decision makers (takes long time to download)
- Jack Mills on Setting Up Evaluation Contracts
- Amy Germuth on Reporting Findings
- Our Ineffectiveness at Measuring Effectiveness
- How to Perform Evaluation Reports
- Donald L Kirkpatrick’s training evaluation model – the four levels of learning evaluation
Overviews of Major Types of Evaluations
- Advertising Efforts
- Boards of Directors (For-Profit)
- Board of Directors (Nonprofit)
- Business Plans
- Chief Executive Evaluation
- Community Assessments
- Customer Satisfaction
- Employee Performance
- Financial Management Practices (For-Profit)
- Financial Management Practices (Nonprofit)
- Fundraising Practices in Nonprofits
- Human Resource Management Practices in Nonprofits
- Legal Activities in Nonprofits
- Marketing Management
- Management Functions (For-Profit)
- Management Functions (Nonprofit)
- Organizational Communications
- Organizations (For-Profit)
- Organizations (Nonprofit)
- Organizational Performance
- Program Evaluation
- Sales Performance
- Self-Assessments
- Strategic Planning Practices
- Team Performance
- Training and Development
General Resources
- American Evaluation Association Public Library
- American Evaluation Association Discussion List
- Innovation Network
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