Editor's Note

A recent Corporate Executive Board survey showed that 95% of managers aren’t satisfied with their organizations’ performance management processes. The same survey showed that 90% of HR professionals don’t believe their companies’ performance reviews provide accurate information. It also reported that 66% of employees say the performance review process interferes with their productivity. So what does that mean?

What’s Going Wrong?: The 8 fatal flaws of traditional performance management

Many of our biggest companies are doing it: Adobe, Gap, Netflix, and GE. Microsoft has played with it. Yahoo is being challenged in court for not doing it. And the world of Human Resources is buzzing about it. What’s “it”? I’m talking about taking steps to rework traditional performance management and its attendant performance reviews, an increasingly hot topic now that the tide has shifted to understanding that old-school performance management simply doesn’t work.

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Make Job Rotation Social: Crowdsource it!

You are great at your work, but wouldn’t you be superior if only the departments around you would perform better? Would it not be fantastic if the boss feels how it is to do your job? If only for one day? There is a centuries old solution for that:job rotation. You can try the work of somebody else. And somebody else can experience your job.

The End Of The Annual Performance Interview: Why is it a flawed practice?

There is increasing evidence that the annual performance review – as it has been practiced – is not only lacking value in companies, but is actually doing damage. General Electric, often cited as a prominent proponent of such review, has recently announced that they are abandoning them. The same is true for Deloitte, Accenture, and Adobe. Why is this? What should replace the review?

Get Ready For A Workplace Demographic Shift

The bad news: The talent acquisition world is about to get much more competitive and complicated. The good news: Those who are prepared will be able to stay ahead of the curve when attracting and retaining the best and the brightest.

Boost Your ROI With Targeted Training: Steps to help you

A modified version of DACUM (which stands for Developing a Curriculum) can be effectively used in situations like that one. DACUM, which was created by educators to design courses, analyzes what people really do and what they need to learn.

Finding Your Place At The Executive Table: How to build stronger partnerships in the C-suite

As an HR/payroll professional, it can be easy to get caught up in the back end administrative work of hiring, paying and managing employees. While the need for this work hasn’t gone away, today’s organizations are focused on finding and keeping the right employees. Company leaders are turning to HR for insight into how to connect employee behavior to strategic initiatives in the organization.

Performance Management Mistakes: 5 management mistakes hindering employee performance

We hear constantly about how U.S. Employees are not engaged in their work. Gallup has done several studies on employee engagement and its’ underlying causes. Gallup reports that at least 70% of variance in employee engagement can be directly attributed to managers. The good news is many of the leadership traits employees seek to find in managers today are easy and practical to implement. Becoming a more successful manager is just a few tweaks away...

How To Avoid Scathing Letters From Employees: 4 tips for business leaders

When Yelp fired the infamous 25-year-old (Talia Jane) who wrote an open letter to her CEO complaining about her hourly wage and benefits, it was celebrated by many on social media. While some business leaders considered this a “win” for their side,this unfortunate incident can also be a teachable moment for all parties in the workplace.