By David Roe - cmswire.com It seems hard to believe that anything to do with data, content management and business performance management could be 20-years-old. But it is. To mark the 20th anniversary of the Balanced Scorecard, the Advanced Performance Institute and Actuate carried out a...
By Fiona Smith - brw.com.au If your boss calls you into a meeting to talk about the need to improve your performance, are you being bullied, or are you being coached? Increasingly, employees are deciding that their manager is a bully and they are laying complaints or...
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...