Performance Management
The Most Important Question About Performance Management: Does It Have a Business Impact?
September 9th, 2015
We published a post last November titled, Eight Signs You Should Revisit Your Performance Management Program, in which we cited the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Foundation’s Report called, Building a High-Performance Culture: A Fresh Look at Performance Management. The report found that:
“Overall, attitudes toward performance management are consistently poor. No more […]
Promote the Wrong Person? Don’t Blame it on Data or Software (Why People Decisions Must Be Owned by People)
December 3rd, 2014
I recently ran across a wonderful article on Google’s quest to develop a mathematical formula to decide which engineers get promoted—and how that effort failed.
Google, not surprisingly, has a People Analytics group whose original mission was that, “All people decisions at Google should be based on data and analytics.” Among other initiatives, the group developed […]
Eight Signs You Should Revisit Your Performance Management Program
November 5th, 2014
According to an article in the Washington Post, Unhappy with your raise this year? In Washington, you’re not alone, a recent “Towers Watson study (reports that) less than half (of employees surveyed) reported a clear link between pay and performance.”
You may be thinking: “But how can that be? Don’t organizations invest tens of millions of dollars […]
Taking Time to Train – That Train Has Left the Station
March 5th, 2014
A version of this article was originally prepared by TPO for one of its clients, an industry educational foundation.
Any question or debate over whether or not to invest time and money in employee training is over. There is a national skills deficit that is exacerbated both by baby boomer retirements and young people not pursuing […]
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