Ensure you have evidence to support an employee’s score One thing we come across on a regular basis is managers who are unable to point to hard evidence, such as personnel records or appraisal forms, to support the scores allocated as part of the selection process. Not only does this leave scope for the employee … Continue Reading
You may recall from a year or so ago a flurry of publicity within the HR world for a number of major companies which had abandoned formal performance ratings (not, as widely misreported, appraisals) in favour of better informal performance management conversations. Pioneers included Accenture, Netflix and Microsoft. The thinking was that a formal rating … Continue Reading
On the train into London you cannot help but overhear conversations, either two or more people travelling together but still feeling the need to raise their voices, or an individual on the phone. Whatever happened to the convention that imposing your conversation on others, especially in the morning, was quite beyond the pale? Anyway, this … Continue Reading
