Employee performance management

A one-size-fits-all approach isn’t good for patients.

A research roundup

To maximize information exchange among employees, don't reward individual performance.

In one company, managers were able to reduce gendered descriptions of employee traits and behaviors — but not how they valued and rewarded them.

It’s one of the hardest decisions a manager will ever have to make.

In these days of talent wars, the best way to keep your stars is to know them better than they know themselves—and then use that information to customize the careers of their dreams.

Dr. Edward M. "Ned" Hallowell outlines the five steps necessary to excel at work: select, connect, play, grapple and shine.

Five strategies for taking care of yourself so you can care for others.

They help low performers but hurt high performers.

When you look at the top people in a given industry, you often find that many of them once worked for the same well-known leader. In the NFL, 20 of 32...

The interview question of the future.

Clay Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and best-selling author, discusses his new book and explains why it's essential to follow your commitments...

It has to start with buy-in from the top.

Goldman Sachs has revamped its process for entry-level recruiting to include first-round interviews by asynchronous video, doubling the percentage of...

by Paul Michelman

A study of scientific papers shows that women hype their findings less than men do.

In appraising performance, designing pay systems, and in organizing and planning work, managers make assessments about the size and importance of jobs. Whether the assessments are accurate deeply affects how well the organization runs. But what do we mean when we say that one job is bigger than another? Bigger in what sense? One way […]

Performance compensation for policy-level executives is interdependent with company policy. Survey data show that most companies use cash bonuses and...

Hated by bosses and subordinates alike, traditional performance appraisals have been abandoned by more than a third of U.S. companies. The annual review's...

First, see if you're the problem.