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Performance Management: the facilitation of high achievement by employees. Performance management involves enabling people to perform their work to the best of their ability, meeting and perhaps...; Performance Management definition on BNET »

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Wanna Show Managerial Determination? Cross Your Arms: The Find: If you're stuck with a challenging problem and looking for an extra dose of perseverance, simply crossing your arms might help. The Source: "The Effect of Arm Crossing on Persistence and Performance," a new study in the European Journal of Social Psychology, cited in the...; Tags: Research, Arm, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jessica Stillman; Blog posts 2008-05-14
The Performance Manager: Turning Information into Higher Business Performance: Research by McKinsey Quarterly confirms what most have known intuitively for some time: all jobs have become more and more information-intensive--less linear and more interactive, less rule-based and more collaborative--while at the same time employees are expected to do more in less time. While technology has helped in part, it...; Tags: Cognos Inc., Performance, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2007-01-01
Trade Deficit Down as Coal Exports Surge: Australia has rebounded from its worst ever trade deficit as resource exports recover from the devastation of the Queensland floods.The nation's export performance is set to sizzle in coming months - with economists even predicting an eventual trade surplus - as Asian nations pay more for key commodities.The trade...; Tags: Coal, Australia, Economist, Surplus, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, AAP; News items 2008-05-06
The Laws of Power 6-10: There are some behaviours that high PQ political quotient managers display repeatedly, like default settings in their mindset. They can be described as the 10 laws of power. Here are 6-10. 6. Be selectively unreasonable When you accept excuses, you accept failure. High PQ managers know...; Tags: Manager, PQ, Performance Management, Professional Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Career, Jo Owen; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Guide To Retaining Your Top Talent: Linking Goals, Measurement, And Rewards To Drive Business Performance: Motivating, rewarding, and retaining top performers is a key business objective for any business that seeks to successfully maintain or exceed growth expectations. The challenge lies in effectively aligning employee goals with organizational objectives, automating performance appraisal processes, and linking them with complex compensation policies or time-based incentive plans at...; Tags: Talent, Incentive, Compensation, Performance, Softscape Inc., Performance Appraisal, Performance Management, Team Management, Benefits, Sales Force Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Sales; White papers 2008-03-01

Performance-Enhancing Drugs at Work: An Ethics Poll: Is the asterisk coming to the business world? The use of performance-enhancing drugs has clogged up the sports world for the last couple of years, but steroid and human growth hormone are not the only way to get a chemical advantage. What about the brain drugs, those...; Tags: Business ethics, Performance management, William Baker, ethics, performance; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Sales performance management: Chris Cabrera, CEO of Xactly Corporation, explains why sales performance management is the "holy grail" of post-sales data and why companies need it to improve sales performance.; Tags: Performance, Sales Strategy, Performance Management, Sales Force Management, Sales, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Video; Videos 2008-05-05
How to Become a CEO, in Three Easy Steps: The Find: An HR consultancy has laid out the key skills for each rung on the career ladder, providing a road map for managers on their way up. The Source: The recent "Pulse on Leaders" study from Personnel Decisions International PDI. The...; Tags: Jessica Stillman, Personnel Decisions International; Blog posts 2008-05-05
Enodis Says Adjusted Pretax Profit Up 6 Percent: LONDON (Reuters UK) - Food equipment maker Enodis ENO, which has agreed Illinois Tool Works's ITW 1.03 billion pounds bid, posted a 6 percent rise in first-half underlying profit on Tuesday. Enodis, which makes fryers and grills for fast-food restaurants such as McDonald's MCD, said...; Tags: Pound, Enodis, Food & Beverage, Performance Management, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Illinois Tool Works Inc., McDonald's Corp.; News items 2008-05-13
Sales performance management and Compensation: Chris Cabrera, CEO of Xactly Corporation, talks about how sales compensation plans drive behavior and improve performance. Xactly sells on-demand sales performance management solutions.; Tags: Compensation, Performance, Sales Compensation, Xactly Corporation, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Performance Management, Sales, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Video; Videos 2008-05-01
G4S Upbeat But Shares Dip on Placement Move: By Kim McLaughlin COPENHAGEN (Reuters UK) - Anglo-Danish security services firm G4S GFS said on Tuesday its underlying performance was slightly ahead of management's expectations and that it was confident about its 2008 performance. But shares in the world's top guard and security firm fell ...; Tags: Acquisition, Growth, Performance, G4S, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Performance Management, Security; News items 2008-05-13
U.S. First-quarter Growth Stronger Than Forecast: WASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - The U.S. economy grew at a slightly stronger pace than forecast as 2008 began, helped by inventory-building that tempered a steadily deteriorating housing sector and less vigorous consumer spending. The Commerce Department said on Wednesday that gross domestic product or GDP...; Tags: Federal Reserve Board, Rate, GDP, GDP Figure, Performance Management, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Food & Beverage, Human Resources; News items 2008-04-30
Great Expectations Lead to Great Performance: The Find: When managers have high expectations for employees, they're three times more likely to get superior performance. The Source: Research from Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Management. The Takeaway: If you want exceptional results, forget cracking the whip and running down...; Tags: Performance management, Leadership, Jessica Stillman, Tel Aviv University, performance; Blog posts 2008-04-30
Improving the Quality of Performance Appraisals Through Rater Training: Measuring work performance is a critical HR function, insofar as performance measures are used for a wide array of personnel-related decisions. Rater training is one approach for improving rating quality. To the extent that employees in the same job are evaluated by different sources it is important that a common...; Tags: Workforce management, Performance management, HR.com, training, performance, Human Resources, job; White papers
Pro-Active performance management: How to Glean Intelligence from Predictive Analytics: It has become more and more necessary to link bottom-line value to leading indicators that may be difficult to measure. For this reason, performance management increasingly relies on measurement of intangibles. But performance in organizations is a complex issue. Where does one begin to measure, and what is worth measuring?...; Tags: predictive analytics, performance management, performance; White papers
Seven Fables of performance management: "Most organizations seek to improve the performance of their staff. However, decades during which the only options were redesigning the paper form or training managers in objective setting have left many deprived of ideas about what to do. “People are our most valuable asset” has become a...; Tags: performance management, decision-making, compliance, performance, training, asset; White papers
Drug Testing Program At Minimal Cost: In May 1990, employee in-field performance and attendance were unsatisfactory. Workers began exhibiting symptoms that kept them from performing their jobs in a safe and timely manner. The firm immediately contacted colleagues in similar businesses to ask for information regarding substance abuse and to get their suggestions for potential solutions...; Tags: Policies and procedures, drug testing, worker, job, performance; Case studies
Pay for What Performance? Lessons From Firms Using the Role-Based Performance Scale: The goal of this paper is to introduce a new measure of individual performance that views performance measurement in terms of roles that are enacted at work. The paper also demonstrates how this measure can help organizations diagnose the degree to which their current compensation system is paying for the...; Tags: Performance management, Cornell University, performance, compensation; White papers
Valuing Employees: A Success Strategy for Fast Growth Firms and Fast Paced Individuals: This research considers the effect of pace on employee and firm performance. Population ecology and protection motivation theory suggest that to achieve success in a fast paced environment, companies should create an environment where employees feel they are valued. The theories emphasize that both fast pace and value are needed...; Tags: Performance management, Investment, Cornell University, environment, motivation, stock price, theory, performance, stock, strategy; White papers
Using Ownership as an Incentive: Does the: Agency theory is used to develop hypotheses regarding the effects of ownership proliferation on firm performance. The article examines the effects of CEO ownership, executive team ownership, and all employee ownership, in addition to the moderating effect of risk, on firm survival and stock price. Firms with low CEO ownership...; Tags: Performance management, Investment, Cornell University, performance, CEO, stock price, incentive, agency, stock; White papers