In previous posts I praised Microsoft’s rejection of individual performance ratings as the building block for an effective performance management system, and described why rating people on a list of ...

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 ...

I’ve worked in the fields of resilience, performance psychology and leadership science for over 20 years. In that time, my team and I have heard leaders ask one question over and over again. It’s one ...

Effective performance management is an important factor in the success of any team. Performance management has different definitions based on the industry it is applied in, but some common threads run ...

Putting a new performance management system into effect can be difficult. That’s especially true when the majority of managers and employees dislike performance reviews. But whether you’re ...

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 ...

To fix performance management systems, C. Allen Gorman, Ph.D., industrial-organizational psychologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Collat School of Business, suggests implementing a ...

The Office of Personnel Management has just issued detailed new requirements for agency performance management systems, and while I will take issue with some of the details on technical and policy ...

Knowing what your employees can and cannot do is an essential part of running an efficient workplace. While watching them perform on a daily basis gives you some insight, it doesn’t always tell the ...

One critical question that I had contended with for sometime as a public service institutional reformer is, why it has been so very difficult to institute performance-oriented values and systems (PMS) ...