Periodically, we ask three HR managers how they’d handle a difficult situation at work. Today’s problem: an employee who gets angry during performance reviews.
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Tags: appraisal, performance reviews, ratings
You can twist yourself in knots trying to dodge a lawsuit, but it really comes down to the avoiding the Big Six Mistakes.
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Tags: at will, eeoc, equal employment opportunity commission, investigations, Moody & Warner, performance
Periodically, we ask three HR managers how they’d handle a difficult situation at work. Today’s problem: Employees are surfing the Web and finding their salaries are too far below the Web “estimates” for their jobs.
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Tags: Pay, performance review, salaries, Web
It’s OK to put some of the responsibility for the success of a review on the people being reviewed. Just try to make sure they understand that it starts with their asking the right questions.
Tags: change dynamics consulting, performance, Performance appraisals
HR exec Susan Gary was spending money on training for employees but not getting the results she wanted – until she changed her company’s approach (part of an ongoing series).
Tags: error rates, Money, Training
Maybe managers’ failings aren’t always the reason performance reviews don’t go as well as they should. Maybe the problem, at least some of the time, is the employees being reviewed.
Tags: , performance, performance reviews, raise
One area of discrimination that’s drawn attention is so-called “PIPs” – improvement plans and periods for low-performers. The key question courts are answering: Can you set different probation periods for different employees?
Tags: discrimination, PIP, probation, terminate
HR manager Steve Cohen saw that despite repeated attempts to structure a fair employee awards program, all he got was a lot of grumbling about how unfair it was. Here’s how he fixed the problem (part of an ongoing series).
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