Viewpoint: Turn Annual Performance Reviews into Humble Encounters

​Editor’s Note: SHRM has partnered with The Conversation to bring you relevant articles on key HR topics and strategies.   Every year, employees worldwide enter annual performance reviews with mixed feelings. Do they approach these... Read more »

How Formal Quarterly Check-Ins Boost Employee Engagement

​In my most recent article, “Developing a Habit of Delivering Frequent but Informal Feedback,” I introduced Lindsay, an HR director at an aerospace manufacturing and design firm with 200 employees. Lindsay was concerned... Read more »

Developing a Habit of Delivering Frequent but Informal Feedback

​Lindsay is an HR director at an aerospace manufacturing and design company with 200 employees, and she’s concerned that her analytical, introverted management team may not be communicating enough with staff engineers... Read more »

Which Employees Receive the Lowest-Quality Feedback

​Women and employees of color receive the lowest-quality feedback from their managers during performance reviews and are leaving their organizations at the highest rates, according to a recent analysis of 13,000 performance... Read more »

Performance Management Tools Should Go Beyond Measurement

​Technology has proven indispensable to improving performance management, by providing dashboards, analytics and an automated workflow.   But as important as metrics and measurement are to inform performance, people managers need to be... Read more »

How HR Is Using Generative AI in Performance Management

​While more HR pros are using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for recruiting, employee communications and learning tasks, they’ve been slower to use it for performance management. HR leaders and industry experts alike... Read more »

A Vexing Problem

?At a tech conference last fall, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced his desire to increase the company’s productivity by 20 percent. Pichai offered an example of how he would accomplish this goal:... Read more »

Viewpoint: Three Gender Biases to Avoid in Performance Reviews

?Because women continue to bear most of the burdens of caregiving, many have benefitted from the flexibility of hybrid and remote work, which has allowed them to remain part of the full-time... Read more »

Use the Star Profile to Unleash Talent and Improve Retention

?Former employment attorney and author Jathan Janove writes for SHRM Online on how to inject greater humanity into HR compliance. Jathan welcomes your questions and suggestions for future columns. Contact him at the email... Read more »

How King’s Hawaiian Ditched Performance Reviews and Reimagined Total Rewards

?When Amy Hirsh Robinson took over as chief people officer at King’s Hawaiian in 2020, she came in with a bold approach: She wanted to kill the company’s performance reviews. “I’ve always... Read more »
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