The recently issued mandate, “Performance Management for Federal Employees,” requires agencies to “provide a firm benchmark towards which employees must aim their performance.” It’s on point but fails ...

Performance reviews can be stressful for both the employee receiving them and managers executing them. Though a little nerve-racking, it is an opportune time to discuss an employee's successes, ...

If human resource personnel are serious about business impact, they should take these four steps to help frontline managers ...

Lauren (Hansen) Holznienkemper is a lead editor for the small business vertical at Forbes Advisor, specializing in HR, payroll and recruiting solutions for small businesses. Using research and writing ...

The Trump administration Is seeking to reassure federal managers and supervisors that their agencies will back them up legally if a subordinate pursues litigation over a poor-performance appraisal or ...

New research shows HR trusts only 35% of managers to handle difficult conversations alone, and why avoidance, burnout, and ...

Employers have been scrutinizing their performance management systems in the wake of the pandemic, which revealed a number of weaknesses in how reviews were done, Gallup noted. After employers stepped ...

Training is expensive—so, if we don’t see the benefit from it, we cut it. But we may be doing so without seeing the hidden ...

It’s time to stop managing imaginary employees and start engineering real human performance. Why do we spend millions on performance management systems that everyone—managers, employees, and ...

An ex-Amazon manager said leadership had to rate a certain number of employees as "least effective." He said he defended an employee who senior leaders placed in this category despite performing well.

Why do we spend millions on performance management systems that everyone—managers, employees, and executives—openly admits are broken? The answer is uncomfortable but simple. We’ve designed these ...