By Claudine Kapel - hrreporter.com A lot of organizations are down on performance management – with some questioning the value of the process overall. A key mistake some organizations make is to consider performance management a generic process that unfolds in a cookie-cutter manner. That could lead...
by Adrian Gaskell MCMI - managers.org.uk Each year the Institute for Corporate Productivity publish their Market Performance Index. The index ranks organizations according to their performance in four key areas: market share, revenue growth, profitability and customer satisfaction. It is inarguable that an organization’s very existence is...
By Claudine Kapel - hrreporter.com Raise your hand if your employees and managers approach the annual performance management process with boundless joy and enthusiasm. If you didn’t raise your hand, you’re probably in good company. Few things provoke as much concern, resistance – and even dread –...
By Gabriella Jozwiak - hrmagazine.co.uk Every workplace has its idiosyncratic seasonal events, and HR is perhaps most visible during the annual performance appraisal. Why? Because employees dislike them. They are time-consuming, involve too much paperwork, HR would even do better to drop them altogether and find...
By Andrew Mayo - personneltoday.com The desire to be "strategic" has engulfed many HR departments. Usually what they mean by this is the deployment of their professional knowledge and skills, working with managers, to do things that will improve the organisation in some way. Personally, I...
By Joanne Sammer - businessfinancemag.com Companies that want to increase revenue growth and profit margins should start looking in a new area—human resources. A new study indicates that companies with strong core HR practices have revenue growth that is up to 3.5 times higher than that of...
By XpertHR - personneltoday.com If, following a thorough investigation and a fair disciplinary hearing, an employer concludes that disciplinary action is needed, it should ensure that its decision on what sanction to impose is fair and reasonable in the circumstances. Once the employer has come to...
By HR.BLR.com Companies that are highly skilled in core HR practices experience up to 3.5 times the revenue growth and as much as 2.1 times the profit margins of less capable companies, according to new research by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and the World Federation...
By Edward E. Lawler III - Forbes Performance appraisals are one of the most frequently criticized talent management practices. The criticisms range from their being an enormous waste of time to their having a destructive impact on the relationship between managers and their subordinates. Criticizing performance appraisals...
Ceridian Corporation, a leading provider of human resources, payroll, benefits administration, tax filing and workforce management software and solutions, announced today the availability of early registration for its free webinar, Five Steps to Improving Your Existing Workforce Management Solution. The one-hour webinar presented by John...