Thanksgiving Carnival of HR: A Feast of Information
A Thanksgiving feast of HR information has been published over at Fortify Your Oasis. As you are sitting there multi-tasking while watching football take a look at what Rowan Manahan has published....
View ArticleRequired Reading for the Week
There are several blog posts this week that are essential reading for anyone who calls themselves an HR Pro. These include: Kris Dunn at the HR Capitalist writing on What’s That Smell? Self Assessments...
View ArticleThe Essence of Performance Management
In Collapse Jared Diamond writes “Businesses have changed when the public came to expect and require different behavior, to reward businesses for behavior that the public wanted, and to make things...
View ArticlePerformance & Recognition: Does Your Unspoken Culture Weed Out the Flowers?
In his book Thrive! (Amazon link), consultant Alan Weiss tells of the Tall Poppy Syndrome, a cultural phenomenon of Australia (and as it turns out of other British based cultures.) Wikipedia describes...
View ArticlePerformance Evaluations: “The GREAT EVIL”?: A Follow Up
My post on Performance Evaluations: “The Great Evil”? generated a fair amount of interest. I had asked in that post for people to participate in a small poll where I asked if performance appraisal...
View ArticleMid-Summer Carnival of HR: Education for HR
The mid-summer edition of the Carnival of HR is being hosted by Jennifer McClure of Unbridled Talent in her Online Degree edition. There are some very interesting and educational posts to be found and...
View ArticleForced Ranking as Performance Management
Forced Ranking is a method of performance management made popular by Jack Welch. It is similar to “the curve” many of us may have encountered in high school and college. Due to the popularity of GE and...
View ArticlePerformance Management Made Easy
A two column list can make you an effective performance manager. As many of you know there is a huge argument about performance appraisal and whether we should eliminate it or not. I come down on the...
View ArticleGetting rid of the performance review process? Not really!
Performance evaluation is not going away, it is just transforming. Accenture made news recently by announcing they were getting rid of performance evaluation. The world rejoiced (or so it seemed) as...
View Article5 Performance Management Trends that are Shaking Up HR
Stuart Hearn – Author and performance management specialist This is a guest post from Stuart Hearn, who holds views very similar to mine on performance management. I happy to know that a new approach...
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