Performance Management
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How to Build a Performance Management Program
Begin by defining role-based competencies and behaviors for every employee so they know exactly what is expected of them. These competencies should include the five or six qualities that define success for every member of the organization.
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The Golden Egg of Incentive Pay Policies Is an Elusive Bird
Even with the best-designed programs, companies face challenges in making incentive and merit-pay programs effective in today's economy.
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Compensation Plan Helps Insurance Firm Cash In
The practices can be time-consuming and arduous to implement, but the time taken to focus on talent management has paid off in ConnectiCare's overall success, an executive says.
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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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High-Profile C-Suite Moves Shines Light on Succession Planning Strategies
In the wake of shifts at the top for Apple, IBM and Hewlett-Packard, heirs in the pipeline can mean a stable transition both financially and in the workplace.
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ADP Bets Big on HR Software by Adding Suite of Services
The traditional back-office service provider joins the likes of Oracle, SAP and SuccessFactors in a crowded HR management software field with the unveiling of Vantage HCM.
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SHRM Names Henry Jackson as New President and CEO
Most recently, he led the organization’s initiatives to educate HR professionals on the employment issues facing military veterans.
