Employee performance management

The interview question of the future.

It's natural to feel distracted when times are tough.

What makes for sustainable individual and organizational performance? Employees who are thriving--not just satisfied and productive but also engaged in...

It's not easy to recover from a big career disappointment such as getting fired or being passed over for a promotion. Many people sink into anger or denial,...

In this fictional case, an associate director of business development at a gaming company is selected for a prestigious cross-functional innovation group....

A good relationship depends on both people.

In these days of talent wars, the best way to keep your stars is to know them better than they know themselves—and then use that information to customize the careers of their dreams.

360-degree feedback is all the rage in companies big and small. But it is frequently bureaucratic, politically charged, and agonizing. The good news is that by understanding four paradoxes inherent to peer appraisal, managers can take some of the pain out of the process—and get better results in.

CEOs tend to have a rosier view of senior management's performance than other top team members do, according to new research--and it looks like the former...

When a research team tracked the help managers gave their colleagues, it discovered something surprising: Offers to lend a hand weren't always appreciated--particularly...

In appraising performance, designing pay systems, and in organizing and planning work, managers make assessments about the size and importance of jobs. Whether the assessments are accurate deeply affects how well the organization runs. But what do we mean when we say that one job is bigger than another? Bigger in what sense? One way […]

How to be a caring and thoughtful leader while holding your team to high standards.

To maximize information exchange among employees, don't reward individual performance.

Agile isn't just for tech anymore--it's transforming how organizations hire, develop, and manage their people. The lead article in this package discusses...

Researchers found that office workers switch back and forth between programs about 1,200 times each day - adding up to four hours every week.

Managers are terrible at rating people's performance.

In this fictional case, an associate director of business development at a gaming company is selected for a prestigious cross-functional innovation group....

Like many other companies, Deloitte realized that its system for evaluating the work of employees--and then training them, promoting them, and paying...

In this fictional case, an associate director of business development at a gaming company is selected for a prestigious cross-functional innovation group....

Whether you're a boss, a colleague, or a friend, you can help the people around you make important life-enhancing changes. But the way to do that isn't...