Posts Tagged ‘performance review’
Like clockwork, but does it work?
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Smartbrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and HR practitioners. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: How often do you perform formal employee-performance reviews? Annually at the same time for every employee, 57% Annually based on the date [...]
This week’s most clicked:
The 5 most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Workforce this past week: 3 keys to an empty inbox How to engage workers in performance review process What great salespeople are really worth Life is too short to stay at a bad job How LinkedIn can solve your staffing problems
Today’s bonus tracks: Wacky performance reviews
Businessweek’s Management IQ team recently put a call out via Twitter for the nuttiest things that people had ever heard in a performance review, and they uncovered a few gems. My favorite: ”‘You’d be 1 of my best engineers if you were 6’ tall w/black hair & a wart on ur nose.’ (Petite blond didn’t [...]
Today’s bonus tracks: Immovable object vs. unstoppable force
What happens an employee takes issue with their performance review and HR gets caught in the cross fire? HR’s role is to back the business, writes Suzanne Lucas, but that doesn’t mean they always have to support the manager doing the performance review. If a manager is known to have their own performance issues, or [...]
Out of sight, out at my other job
Tim Tolan shared a fantastic, secondhand story over at Fistful of Talent about a worker who was double-dipping on two companies’ payrolls. Many people make ends meet by working a second job, but not usually at the same time. The guy was busted at Job 1 only when his performance nose-dived. Reading this story will [...]
Reviewing the review
Many managers have long wished they could chuck the formal performance review, but until very recently, no alternatives to the replace that clunky, corporate institution seemed viable. However, a number of employers have begun dropping the annual sit-down in favor of more frequent, less-formal meetings. Fulfilling the needs of Gen Y workers for continuous feedback [...]
