Performance Appraisals
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Survey: Time Wasted on Poor Performers
Supervisors spend 17 percent of their time, or nearly one day per week, overseeing poorly performing employees.
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Chicago Teachers Strike Could Offer a Lesson on Performance Evaluations
Performance evaluation “is a nationwide issue—and it's an issue that is not going away,” said Norm Solomon, a professor of management at Fairfield University in Connecticut. “I don't think anybody should be surprised that this issue is coming to the fore.
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Preventing Employee Burnout: Customized Solutions
Employers are demanding more while employees are engaging less, but there is one way to keep your best workers from checking out completely—recognizing who they are and rewarding them accordingly
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Companies Pushing Workers Over the Limit
Like Charlie Chaplin's character in the comedy Modern Times about an assembly-line worker who loses it after tightening one bolt too many, HR consultant Art Quinn says that when employees are pushed to their limits, the workplace can be a dehumanizing place.
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Perhaps Your Workers Are Entitled to New Titles
A promotion can do a lot to make up for the longer hours and extra duties that many workers have wrestled with in the past couple of years. But firms often fail to see where employees who are learning on the job might fit into new roles.
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Effective Talent Assessment Starts (and Ends) With Leadership
A bad hiring decision can cost a company more than 1.5 times the mis-hire's salary, depending on the level of the role. With the right assessment, businesses can avoid this cost.
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LIVE CHAT: Reviewing Performance Reviews
Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT Some companies are moving away from traditional, often unpopular annual performance reviews and turning to other approaches for evaluating staff and giving workers more frequent feedback.
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Is Your Performance Review Underperforming?
Some companies are moving away from traditional, often unpopular annual performance reviews and turning to other approaches for evaluating staff and giving workers more frequent feedback.
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A Better Performance
Once-a-year feedback via the performance review isn't cutting it anymore, and employees should take note.
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Four Ways to Make Your Existing Performance Review Process Better
There are ways to help make the effectiveness of the process you currently have better. Rather than tell you you're doing it wrong, here are some thoughts that can help maximize what you have in place.
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Multiskilled Employees Sought as Versatility Becomes a Workplace Virtue
With the new value placed on adaptable employees, hiring managers appear to be seeking workers who are willing to take on different tasks.
