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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

• 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

• 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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  Fri, 29 Jun 2012

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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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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