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Performance Management Orientation GuideThu, 27 Sep 2012
This guide provides you with a high-level overview of performance management – what it is, what it can do for your organization and what you should consider in developing or more »
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Protecting Yourself in the Performance Review Process
Fri, 29 Jun 2012
Now, more than ever, managers need to take great care in preparing performance reviews, documenting decisions and maintaining records. Failing to take the performance-management process seriously
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What's the Goal of Performance Management?
Fri, 6 Jul 2012
By that, I mean if you had to choose one goal of performance management in your company, what would it be? Not a list of 25 things like one of those godawful job descriptions ... For me, the one
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Control and Customization
Mon, 2 Jul 2012
A Towers Perrin global survey of performance management and compensation practices indicates that variable pay programs often fail to produce performance improvements.
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How CHROs Deliver Business Impact
Sat, 30 Jun 2012
Talent. Everyone knows that it can give your organization a competitive edge. But whose job is it? Does it belong to the CEO? Or to HR? The answer is both. In this free white paper, SuccessFactors
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Why Can't HR Solve the Performance Management Puzzle?
Fri, 6 Jul 2012
Why can't HR seem to solve the problem of performance management? After decades of best practices research, an endless search for the right forms/criteria/ratings scales, and enormous investments in
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Should We Dispatch With Annual Performance Reviews?
Tue, 15 May 2012
What are the alternatives if we scrap the annual performance review? —Torn in HR, warehouse/ distribution, Virginia Beach, Virginia
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The Elements of NCCI's Performance-Management Success
Fri, 29 Jun 2012
At NCCI Holdings, Inc., developing an innovative evaluation system has been a significant factor in reducing turnover, pumping up performance, and improving company revenues.
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How Do We Correlate Performance Management and New Training?
Wed, 14 Dec 2011
How should we use performance appraisals to determine training and development needs for staff? —Performance Management Newbie, HR manager, publishing/communication/advertising, Asia
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Is Your Performance Review Underperforming?
Mon, 19 Sep 2011
Some companies are moving away from traditional, often unpopular annual performance reviews and turning to other approaches for evaluating staff and giving workers more frequent feedback.
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Measuring and Addressing Competency Gaps
Fri, 29 Jun 2012
Among the wide range of organizational processes related to retaining high-performing employees, corporate competencies have become a focal point, helping successful organizations understand where to
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Protecting Yourself in the Performance Review Process
Fri, 29 Jun 2012
Now, more than ever, managers need to take great care in preparing performance reviews, documenting decisions and maintaining records. Failing to take the performance-management process seriously
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How Do We Convince Execs Who Are Skeptical of Performance Management?
Tue, 3 Jan 2012
We have no performance review or assessment procedure in place. How do I convince executives who think “that stuff” is unnecessary that it actually benefits our organization, particularly
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All I Ever Needed to Know About Performance Management I Learned From Little League Baseball
Wed, 7 Sep 2011
Commentary: You can learn things from big-name management gurus, but coaching a bunch of scrappy 9-year-olds is a smarter play. They can really show you what it takes to develop high performance
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Sustainability No Buzzword in Running a 21st Century Company
Mon, 30 Jul 2012
The right management approach for this world is a sustainable one that enables organizations to perform well financially, socially and environmentally.
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Professional Edition Core Datasheet
Fri, 29 Jun 2012
In this SuccessFactors Datasheet, read an overview of how SuccessFactors BizX Solutions for small businesses can help get the most of employees each and every day. SuccessFactors Professional Edition
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Is Your Performance Review Underperforming?
Mon, 19 Sep 2011
Some companies are moving away from traditional, often unpopular annual performance reviews and turning to other approaches for evaluating staff and giving workers more frequent feedback.
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SuccessFactors Research Ties Performance Management to Stock Market Success
Thu, 15 Sep 2011
The report, based on 153 publicly traded SuccessFactors customers, is part of a growing body of research quantifying the link between particular people management practices and business results.
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A Better Performance
Wed, 7 Sep 2011
Once-a-year feedback via the performance review isn't cutting it anymore, and employees should take note.
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Preparing for a Shortage of Skilled Employees
Fri, 29 Jun 2012
As the U.S. economy slowly recovers from the 2007-2009 recession, many organizations are shifting focus from managing short-term workforce needs to more strategic, long-term workforce planning.
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Control and Customization
Mon, 2 Jul 2012
A Towers Perrin global survey of performance management and compensation practices indicates that variable pay programs often fail to produce performance improvements.
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Here's Why Performance Management Feels Like a Cop is Running It ...
Fri, 6 Jul 2012
You have great ideas. You're going to decentralize the whole performance management process at your company. Power to the managers. Real conversations. Let them run their business. The way it ought
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How to Build a Performance Management Program
Fri, 29 Jun 2012
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
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Software as Service
Fri, 29 Jun 2012
Applications that are accessed via the Internet are taking hold in several workforce management areas, including core HRMS, recruitment and performance management. This “on-demand”
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Driving Business Execution Through Integrated Talent Management
Fri, 29 Jun 2012
Running a business requires doing three things: Defining Strategy: Figuring out what you need to do to succeed. Managing Assets: Securing the capital & resources required to support the
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How to Build a Performance Management Program
Fri, 29 Jun 2012
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
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Employee Performance Management What's Gnu at the Zoo
Fri, 14 Sep 2012
The San Diego Zoological Society, which employs 2,600 people, this year introduced an employee performance management system whose ratings will determine managers' pay raises. It's part of an
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Lawson Defections: Corporate Coup or Business as Usual?
Wed, 28 Mar 2012
When business software vendor Infor announced the acquisition of Lawson Software in July, many Lawson customers and analysts were concerned about the future of the company's product lines. Infor
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Updated: Oracle to Buy HR Software Firm Taleo for $1.9 Billion
Thu, 9 Feb 2012
The deal signals more momentum for the cloud computing model, where customers rent applications over the Internet instead of paying for a software license and installing the programs on internal
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2012 HR Technology Forecast
Mon, 23 Jan 2012
The new year will usher in more cloud-based apps, 'bring your own device' policies and merger and acquisition deals for tech vendors.
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HCM Vendor Scene Heats Up
Wed, 11 Jan 2012
Industry watchers predict a year of HR tech vendor deals in the wake of SAP's SuccessFactors acquisition.
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The SAP-SuccessFactors Deal: Could the Tail Wag the Dog?
Wed, 7 Dec 2011
My main question is whether SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard can be happy as a lieutenant as opposed to the commander-in-chief.
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Dear Workforce How Should We Conduct Performance-Appraisal 'Calibration' Meetings With Managers?
Mon, 17 Oct 2011
I'm interested in how we could conduct productive performance appraisal “calibration” meetings with our managers. These are the people upon whom we rely to be our talent evaluators. We
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The Hot List: 2011 Integrated Talent Management Software Providers
Wed, 21 Sep 2011
Listed in alphabetical order. Published March 2011.
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Managers Must Enter the Coaching Box to Help Develop Their Team
Fri, 16 Sep 2011
If managers do not become skilled at coaching their employees, it is unlikely that they will be able to achieve sustainable long-term positive results for themselves or their organizations.
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1999 Service Optimas Award Profile The Valspar Corporation
Wed, 7 Sep 2011
HR has created 12 job families that embrace the company's 3,830 different jobs. By focusing on core behaviors that cut across jobs, HR created aptitude tests, interview guides, and performance
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Winning Through Talent in Uncertain Times
Tue, 3 Jul 2012
NOW, more than ever, is the time to focus on your people — the key to your future success. It is easy to think in tough economic times that you cannot afford to focus on talent – but
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HCM Vendor Scene Heats Up
Wed, 11 Jan 2012
Industry watchers predict a year of HR tech vendor deals in the wake of SAP's SuccessFactors acquisition.
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Here's Why Performance Management Feels Like a Cop is Running It ...
Fri, 6 Jul 2012
You have great ideas. You're going to decentralize the whole performance management process at your company. Power to the managers. Real conversations. Let them run their business. The way it ought
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Copping Out on Performance Management
Fri, 29 Jun 2012
Sometimes performance management systems give managers the chance to gloss over the tough conversations that could really drive excellent performance. Here's how to remove the 'bail out' feature and
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Can a Poor Performance Review Count as an 'Adverse Action?'
Thu, 24 May 2012
Traditionally, a negative performance review does not constitute an adverse employment action, unless 'the evaluation has an adverse impact on an employee's wages or salary.' Or does it?
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Leaders Drive Productivity
Fri, 29 Jun 2012
In this free white paper from SuccessFactors, explore the Leaders Challenge, which is to create the circumstances that stimulate improved performance and execution from the people within your
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Most Firms With DB Plans to Keep Them Open to New Hires
Thu, 24 May 2012
Among defined benefit plans offered to new hires, 54 percent are hybrid plans such as cash balance plans, which combine elements of defined benefit and defined contribution plans, but legally are
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Salesforce.com Buys Its Way Into HR Software
Tue, 22 May 2012
SAP, Oracle and other HR software vendors have a surprising new competitor thanks to the acquisition of Rypple by Salesforce.com.
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Learning Needs to Be Simple Enough to Make It Stick
Tue, 22 May 2012
In the workplace, when we try to teach concepts like listening to concerns, non-retaliation or other compliance topics, we often don't match how we teach to how we learn.
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Home Depot Reaches Settlement in Firing of National Guardsman
Tue, 22 May 2012
The Justice Department has reached a $45,000 settlement with Home Depot Inc. to resolve charges it violated federal law when it terminated an Army National Guard soldier's employment. The DOJ said
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Health Care Reform Law Ruling Likely Complicated: WorldatWork Executive
Mon, 21 May 2012
If the high court were to strike down the individual mandate that requires most U.S. residents to enroll in a qualified health care plan, Cara Woodson Welch, Washington-based vice president of policy
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The Pulse of the Industry
Mon, 21 May 2012
Companies are opening their wallets for HR software products, but more than 40 percent have had a disappointing HR tech implementation. Find out more at HR Tech Week June 5-6.
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Grocery Chain to Indemnify Directors, Officers Against All Litigation Losses
Mon, 21 May 2012
The indemnification agreement that Safeway Inc.'s directors and officers will sign says in part that Safeway's board has determined the agreement is needed 'in order to attract and retain qualified
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How Do We Get Beyond Adequate Performance?
Tue, 17 Jan 2012
Some employees are close to being fired for not meeting performance standards. But our company has never had a formalized system to counsel people about job expectations. How do we prevent the loss
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Dear Workforce What Happens When Performance Reviews Begin to Lose Their Impact?
Mon, 17 Oct 2011
My company requires us to perform a performance review for each of our staff members annually. As a part of the review process, we must create goals for the staff member to work on for the upcoming
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Companies Draw Up Coaching Play for Managers, but Many Can't Coach
Mon, 19 Sep 2011
The influx of younger workers from the millennial generation is driving interest in coaching because they tend to crave frequent feedback and one-on-one interaction with managers and mentors.
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SHRM, Dissident Group Set Summit to Air Differences
Thu, 15 Sep 2011
The SHRM Members for Transparency, which formed last year largely over concerns about the SHRM board’s 2005 decision to pay board members, had been asking to meet with SHRM leaders since the fall of
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Why Integrity Doesnt Drive Performance
Wed, 7 Sep 2011
Commentary: If you want a performance management process to reinforce or build cultural values at your company, you’ll need more than lip service to those values. You’ll need to make some current
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Four Ways to Make Your Existing Performance Review Process Better
Wed, 7 Sep 2011
There are ways to help make the effectiveness of the process you currently have better. Rather than tell you you're doing it wrong, here are some thoughts that can help maximize what you have in
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Making the Call for Themselves
Wed, 7 Sep 2011
American Express revamps its people management approach and gives call center representatives more latitude as part of a quest to upgrade customer service.
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Four Ways to Make Your Existing Performance Review Process Better
Wed, 7 Sep 2011
There are ways to help make the effectiveness of the process you currently have better. Rather than tell you you're doing it wrong, here are some thoughts that can help maximize what you have in
