Performance Management

This Roadmap focuses on the changing terrain of employee performance management, and will help get you started. Performance Management Read the complete article

You may have heard about Microsoft abandoning its controversial “stack ranking” method of evaluating employees. It forced managers to stack employees in terms of “high,” “middle” and “low” performers during annual reviews. Around the same time, Yahoo made news for adopting ranking employees on a curve.All Performance Management Read the complete article

Here’s how to design the perfect performance management process. It isn’t a trick. Really. OK, well “perfect” may be a bit strong, but it is possible to design a performance management … Performance Management Read the complete article

There is a long standing belief in business that people performance follows the Bell Curve (also called the Normal Distribution). This belief has been embedded in many business practices: performance appraisals, compensation models, and even how we get graded in school. (Remember “grading by the curve?”) Research shows that this statistical model, while easy to […] Performance Management Read the …

This is an excerpt from Scaling Up Excellence, which Huggy Rao and I published earlier this week. Our research revealed that scaling is a problem of both more and less. The best organizations Performance Management Read the complete article

Annual performance reviews: you either love ’em or hate ’em. Performance Management Read the complete article

The reviews would be done only because I demanded them. And when they were done, the paperwork was put in a drawer and ignored. Performance Management Read the complete article

Let’s be honest: performance reviews are a pain in the you-know-what. Performance Management Read the complete article

Traditional performance reviews don’t offer what employees need, which is year-round coaching, performance feedback, direction and development. Performance Management Read the complete article

Even as it completes two years, the performance management system (PMS) launched by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) might see an overhaul. Performance Management Read the complete article