Performance Management Archives

goals kras for sales, marketing, hr, it, and finance

How to Write Goals key Responsibility Areas (KRAs) for Sales, Marketing, HR, IT, and Finance

KRA stands for Key Responsibility Areas and directly follows from Job Description of an employee. Essentially, KRAs document the specific … Read more

Performance Support – How it Can Assist the Workforce

Performance Support – how is it different from learning? What is learning? Learning, simply put is the transfer of … Read more

How to Conduct Employee Appraisals: Slideshare

More than ever organizations are looking to set SMART goals and conduct performance appraisals honestly. But does HONESTY itself gives … Read more

Is your Performance Management a mere Ritual?

Preface: Many a time HR processes are introduced with a business purpose but end up as a mere formality. … Read more

Empxtrack Automates & Streamlines Human Resource Processes for a Technology Provider

The case study is about a technology provider, Verchaska, focusing primarily on delivering software solutions and services that range across … Read more

5 Tips for coping with negative emotions at work

As working professionals, we all know the feeling of butting heads with a coworker or feeling frustrated with our workloads. … Read more

Should 360 Degree feedback be used for development purposes or for performance appraisals?

360 Degree Feedback is widely used in companies these days. Some companies use it only for the development purpose of … Read more

importance of training and education for employees

The importance of further training and education for employees

Businesses today must do everything possible to stay competitive and maintain a highly skilled, motivated staff. Despite today’s very competitive … Read more

Managing performance of workers

Organizations in the manufacturing and service sectors such as hospitality, infrastructure, security, logistics and retail have a large component of … Read more

Managing Non Performers

Organizations today focus mostly on managing high performers, probably as a risk mitigation measure. After all, high-performers are considered as … Read more

Employee training: a management perspective

How does the management view employee training and what do they expect from it? This was a question which intrigued … Read more

Getting Employee Performance Evaluation Right

Most companies want to conduct employees performance evaluation on a periodic basis and their Human Resources department is generally responsible … Read more

Variable Pay: A motivation & retention tool

Over the last couple of years, it has become clear that the option of variable incentives did not work very … Read more

Post-recession challenges of talent management

After nearly a year, the news on recession is taking a U-turn as analysts are officially reporting that the recession … Read more

Employee termination or firing – HR’s role is critical!

Termination or firing employees is an unpopular but mandatory process. All businesses, big or small may, at some time, fire … Read more

Consultants accept that Software is 20 percent of Talent Management

Blogger, Andrew Gebavi, a principal consultant focusing on Talent Management in his recept post ” Software is only 20 percent … Read more

Empxtrack Implementation for a Not-for-Profit: Benefits

The implementation of Empxtrack Lite was recently completed for a not-for-profit organization called African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) based out of … Read more

Performance Appraisal Scores can be DECEPTIVE

The one positive thing recession has done for organizations is shifting the focus to what really matters when analyzing employee … Read more

Normalization of Employee Performance Review Scores

Rating Patterns of Managers in a Performance Review During a performance review, managers tend to rate differently – some are … Read more