Look around in the corporate world and you would observe that while almost all departments in a company are subject to quantitative performance measurement, there is one exception – the HR department. For a long time, Human resource management has been treated as a soft skill rather than a scientific discipline. With more & more […]
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Are you one of those who hate the phrase Performance Appraisal? Does every mention of the phrase make you cringe? If yes, then you are among the majority of population which shares your view, managers and employees alike! Recent studies have shown that not only is traditional performance appraisal viewed as an unnecessary evil, it
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Employees form the foundation of any company. They are the ones who give their all and make sure the company successfully achieves its objectives. If employees are the reason companies become successful, it is their managers who are instrumental in driving them towards success. Managers monitor the performance of their team from time to time
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How would your employees react if they got to know their performance is not going to be reviewed? Pandemonium, right? Performance reviews are essential for both the managers as well as the employees. They provide an opportunity to have an insightful conversation. Managers get to know how their employees have performed throughout the month, quarter
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Agile performance management is a collaborative, continuous feedback and development practice that is steadily replacing traditional performance management. Traditional performance management has proven to be insufficient to assess an employee’s contribution. Its primary focus is setting up a series of processes to measure the employee’s performance over the whole year. These processes end up having
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We all have either said or heard (or both) ‘oh no! not again!!’ on announcement of the Annual performance reviews at the workplace. It is no secret that very few companies end up actually improving at the conclusion of the tedious review process. In fact, refer to the umpteen polls, surveys out there and one
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It is no secret that recognition of hard working employees can benefit a company in many ways. Once an employee feels valued, he will know that his work is contributing towards the success of the company. In these hard economic times, when many employees are fearful of cutbacks and pay reductions, a couple of words of encouragement can
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