The plan to institute a forced or “standardized” distribution of performance ratings upon the federal workforce has survived ...

Employers have been scrutinizing their performance management systems in the wake of the pandemic, which revealed a number of weaknesses in how reviews were done, Gallup noted. After employers stepped ...

A new proposal addresses “inflated” evaluations for federal employees and the failure to “materially differentiate” between performance levels, OPM said.

In previous posts I praised Microsoft’s rejection of individual performance ratings as the building block for an effective performance management system, and described why rating people on a list of ...

It’s time to stop managing imaginary employees and start engineering real human performance. Why do we spend millions on performance management systems that everyone—managers, employees, and ...

Effective performance management is an important factor in the success of any team. Performance management has different definitions based on the industry it is applied in, but some common threads run ...

Putting a new performance management system into effect can be difficult. That’s especially true when the majority of managers and employees dislike performance reviews. But whether you’re ...

I’ve worked in the fields of resilience, performance psychology and leadership science for over 20 years. In that time, my team and I have heard leaders ask one question over and over again. It’s one ...

Why do we spend millions on performance management systems that everyone—managers, employees, and executives—openly admits are broken? The answer is uncomfortable but simple. We’ve designed these ...