Are performance reviews making any difference in your workforce productivity? Is it even effective in optimizing an employee’s performance? Not sure? You’re not alone! Ideally, performance review is a systematic process to evaluate and document performance of an employee. If an appraisal process is designed and implemented carefully, it can help managers and HR to […]
Entrepreneurship or starting a new business is petrifying no matter who you are—and when you have the security of a permanent position, it can be tough to cut those strings. Plus, being faced with statistics like the fact that 90 percent of startups fail isn’t very comforting. However, if you have that entrepreneurial drive, it’s […]
Employee retention and workforce performance are two major challenges for nearly every organization. For achieving better business outcomes, companies need to engage top talent and create a work culture where each employee adds value to the business. Since employees take time to deliver results, it is important to retain experienced and high capability employees. The […]
Transition from Paper-Based Process to Automated Workflows: Empxtrack Improves Performance Appraisal Process for Saksoft Introduction Saksoft is an Information Management and Business Intelligence company managing more than 1000 employees deployed in multiple countries, including India, US, UK, and Singapore. This case study discusses the challenges that the organization faced and how Empxtrack helped them in […]
Take a moment to assume yourself to be a member of sales team in a product based company. An email notification pops up on your laptop screen. Message: Well, the goal doesn’t seem to be an easy one! But is this the right way to decide an employee’s goals? Does the manager even know if […]
As we are nearing the end of 2016, each one of us must have made some New Year resolutions. For many, the most common personal resolutions are to eat healthy, exercise more, spend less time on phones and other gadgets, and give more time to family/ friends. But, have you thought about the improvements you […]
Hitting a target that you can’t see isn’t cool. Did you hear that? To achieve your aim, you need to focus on your goals and objectives! Do managers in your company use goal setting and tracking effectively to ensure organizational and employee performance? I am sure only half of you would answer a ‘Yes’! This […]
Inspiring leader, quick problem solver, empathetic person, multi-tasking colleague and compassionate mentor are some of the qualities that employees generally expect in their manager. For instance, some employees admire a hands-on boss whois always concerned to ask his team members “How are things going?” While others don’t wish to see their boss, except for annual […]
Recently, the news of Adobe, SAP, Microsoft and other Fortune 500 companies eliminating annual performance reviews has been doing rounds in the HR world. The traditional annual performance appraisals are fundamentally flawed with unclear employee goals, irregular feedbacks and no employee recognition programs. It’s true that these once-in-a-year assessments do not improve employee performance, and […]
The Rio Olympics 2016 Sports lovers, across the world, had a wonderful time witnessing the spectacular 31st Summer Olympics event. This international sports event, scheduled between 5th to 21st August in Rio de Janeiro, united 10,000 athletes to compete in 28 different sports. Billions of people in more than 200 countries glued themselves to their […]
As stated by Wikipedia, “Employee performance management process includes activities which ensure that goals are consistently being met in an effective and efficient manner. The process helps focus on performance of the organization, department, employee, or even the various processes that are a part of the organizations business. A well-defined performance management enables an organization […]
“If organizations increase investment in workplace practices which are related to employee engagement by just 10%, they would increase profits by $2,400 per employee” as stated by Accenture. The workplaces are changing… And today, the way people perform business functions is evolving rapidly. Introduction of online HR tools has given a new life to multiple workplace practices – employee engagement being one of the […]
A performance appraisal is a periodic evaluation of employees’ performance. An effective appraisal process encourages continuous feedback, training and praise to nurture workforce. Before you go further, take a look at how John is appraised in a manual appraisal process. “John is an intelligent and hard-working software developer in a mid-size organization. In the absence […]
Say aye, if you read the post’s title and thought to yourself that it has to do with Sales team’s performance based incentives. While you’re not alone, this cannot be further away from the truth; employees of almost any department (marketing, HR, operations and more) can be included in a company’s variable incentive plan. The Society […]
Today, talent shortage causes companies to poach resources from other firms. At Empxtrack, we help you to retain your most valuable employees by making them a part of your workforce management process. In his book titled ‘Corporate Culture and Performance’, John Kotter states that companies with strong adaptive culture and shared values perform better on average […]
Everyone knows you should make SMART goals and work towards them. But only a few people are able to do it. How do they do it? Hint: writing it on a to-do list may help. At least Simon Sinek says so. The reason : you can only achieve the goals you SEE. Seeing these goals […]
We are often asked these questions from SME: Can HR automation help us? What are our needs in this area? What will be some of the challenges we will face during HR automation? This article tries to address these questions. What is an SME? There are various criteria to define an SME and these may […]
All of us have heard the common idiom “Is the glass half empty or half full?”. The idiom is commonly used to explain how we perceive events and objects around us. An optimistic person would always see the glass as half full, focus on goal management and a pessimist person would see the glass as […]
Preface: Many a time HR processes are introduced with a business purpose but end up as a mere formality. There is a need, therefore, to verify if your ‘Performance Management Process’ is meeting your business needs or has turned, over the years, into a glorified ritual. Review the Purpose of your PMS – The purpose […]
Abstract The implementation of Empxtrack Lite was recently completed for a not-for-profit organization called African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) based out of Washington DC. This case study covers the benefits seen by the organization after the implementation of the package and is based on the feedback given by the customer. Customization of the product Empxtrack considered […]
