?Annual performance reviews prevent many employees from being engaged and distract companies from keeping agile, according to Joe Rotella, SHRM-SCP, chief value officer at Delphia Consulting LLC in Columbus, Ohio. He gave... Read more »
Employees sometimes just want their manager to empathize and provide a safe place to talk, not to try and fix their problems, said Terri Bogue, chief operations officer with Thor Projects LLC... Read more »
The first rule of performance reviews is that employees should never be surprised by what is said. Assuming that managers are speaking with their reports in real time throughout the year, providing... Read more »
?U.S. worker productivity year-over-year has declined for five straight quarters for the first time on record. Does that support the arguments made by critics of remote work that traditional, in-person work produces... Read more »
After an annual review that lasted about 10 minutes, a New Jersey-based account coordinator knew it was time to leave the public relations agency where he had worked for almost a year. ... Read more »
?Why is it that so many managers tend to look the other way when attempting to deliver corrective feedback to their employees? We know the path of least resistance is avoidance, but... Read more »
?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 e-mail... Read more »
?Travis is an HR director. One afternoon, the vice president of sales, Daniel, stopped by to speak with him about problems he was having with one of his direct reports, the recently... Read more »
?Hybrid work is here to stay in many industries, according to recent research and expert opinion, despite CEOs ordering employees back to the workplace full time. That means many managers will continue... Read more »
?A performance improvement plan (PIP) is typically a step in a progressive discipline policy—one that shouldn’t be rushed into too quickly or used for all types of performance deficiencies. If the performance... Read more »
