By Janine Milne - diginomica.com SUMMARY: It’s time to bin performance management as we know it, argues Heidi Spirgi. There isn’t any more hated tool in the HR universe. So says Heidi Spirgi, senior vice president of product and technology services at The Marcus Buckingham Company, of performance...
By Prithvi Shergill - hrmagazine.co.uk Gen Y is increasingly becoming a bigger part of our workforce and dynamics have fundamentally changed, with a demand for faster, more innovative and flexible experience and service delivery mechanisms. Fortune magazine deemed Generation Y as the most high-maintenance, yet potentially most...
Nucleus Research examines new technologies and tools that are improving sales managers’ ability to measure and enhance the performance of their sales teams. Nucleus sees the future of sales performance management as integrated with CRM and collaboration technologies, enhancing managers' ability to provide real-time coaching...
Marissa Mayer at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 conference By Joshua Brustein - businessweek.com If Marissa Mayer is as good at identifying winning startups as she is at embracing contentious human resources practices, Yahoo! (YHOO) is going to be just fine. Several months after the great work-at-home kerfuffle...
By leadingcompany.smartcompany.com.au When Mark Britt filled the position of CEO at NineMSN in 2011, he promised to bring with him some key changes and big ideas. One was a change of branding for the group from NineMSN to Mi9. (The company manages Australian online properties such as...
By James Taylor - information-management.com t seems to me that there are two different perspectives for the use of performance management software (dashboards and such). There are the folks who really think deeply about performance management (like my friend Gary Cokins who just passed 100 monthly...
By Dick Grote - hbr.org After 30 years of consulting, I thought I had run across every question regarding performance management. But a client recently came up with an intriguing query that I hadn't encountered before. Bob wrote: Sometimes it happens in our business that a management employee...
By Cameron Edmond - hcamag.com Performance management traditionally focuses on the high-flyers or those at the other end of the spectrum, but studies show re-thinking the system can help businesses in the long run. The recent issue of Hays Journal indicated that employers who invest in a...
By Iain Hopkins - hcamag.com If there’s one HR process that draws more heated debate than any other, it’s performance management. The existing model has a 75-year history, initially serving as a means to justify one’s salary. Much has changed and the general consensus today is that...
By: Barbara Bowes - winnipegfreepress.com June -- it's that time of year again for report cards and performance reviews! And, if your employees are blurting out, "Ugh, oh no, not that time already" and you are seeing them physically cringe, I'd like to suggest that you might...