Current Legal Issues in Performance Appraisal
It is almost inevitable that one or more elements of your organization’s performance appraisal system will attract legal scrutiny at some point in time...
Evaluating HR through a CEO's eyes.
Many HR departments say they are a "business partner," but few can provide any real evidence that they are having a strategic business impact...
Creating Development Plans that Actually Work
How do you create a development plan that actually ends up producing change? This article explains what causes people to develop, where to focus attention, how training fits into development, and what the boss's responsibilities for development are...
Improving the Effectiveness of Performance Management
This article explores why existing formal and informal approaches to employee performance management and appraisal (EPMA) tend to work well enough in theory, but fail to meet expectations in practice...
Making Performance Appraisals Relevant
The author's position is that performance appraisal programs can be made considerably more effective if management will fit practice to purpose when setting goals and selecting appraisal techniques to achieve them...