Performance Appraisal: HR News, Trends & Workplace Insights

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Updated on: Feb 2020
Ensure Fairness, a rating is not the issue
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Ensure Fairness, a rating is not the issue

Fairness (fɛːnəs): “Treating people equally” or “impartial and just treatment or behaviour without favouritism or discrimination” Over the last few years, we have seen many polarizing arguments where people have vociferously debated the relevance of Performance Appraisals, more so around the performance ratings that follow this exercise. While at the core it seems like a legitimate […]

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To Be or Not To Be, That’s Really Not The Question Anymore!
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To Be or Not To Be, That’s Really Not The Question Anymore!

As I walked down memory lane, quite literally when I visited my college for a guest lecture, my footsteps took me to the library which was one of my favorite hangouts back then! My glance fell on a book “Its not how good you are, its how good you want to be”, by Paul Arden. […]

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Current Challenges & The Future Of Performance Reviews
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Current Challenges & The Future Of Performance Reviews

It is common knowledge that performance management often fails. But it still matters – for important talent decisions, business outcomes and impact. Numerous high profile organizations viz., Deloitte, Accenture, Gap, Adobe, Microsoft, GE, eliminated the annual performance review and replaced it with a more dynamic and engaging process of on-going feedback and coaching. However, the […]

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Key Elements of Effective Performance Dialogue
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Key Elements of Effective Performance Dialogue

Taken from various angles, from the economic to technological, our business environment is more dynamic than ever, with new scenarios playing out across the world. Organizations are undergoing dramatic transformations, implementing change to their vision and hopes. To adapt to such changes in the business ecosystem, we need talent just as ready to evolve and […]

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New Rules of Measuring and Evolving Employee Performance
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New Rules of Measuring and Evolving Employee Performance

Performance Management in the very heart of Human Resource function, which funnels all the HR processes of talent management. The process over time had changed focus from performance evaluation to rewards to learning needs to performance development. The business realities of today’s global economy are ruthless and unforgiving which seldom give the second chance to […]

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How to give ‘Performance Feedback’ to employees
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How to give ‘Performance Feedback’ to employees

There is a classic dichotomy for you to reflect upon: In a VUCA business environment, organizations need more from their employees than ever. But the same forces shaking businesses are also overwhelming employees, driving up their fear, and compromising their capacity. It’s no wonder that so many organizations are focused on how to build a […]

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5 Effective Performance Management Tools to Adopt
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5 Effective Performance Management Tools to Adopt

Each organisation strives towards building an effective performance management process for business success. A process which encourages employees to take ownership in driving overall organizational performance focuses on 3 major deliverables: Translating strategic Business Objectives and Initiatives into Individual Performance Objectives and Action Plan. Facilitating individual & thereby business performance through continuous event based feedback, […]

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Why Performance Appraisals are dying? And what is the future?
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Why Performance Appraisals are dying? And what is the future?

Performance Management and appraisals has been a topic of several discussions debate and research over the last decade. Since 2012, when Kelly Services decided to drop appraisals, it became the year where one of corner stones of good HR- Performance Management was challenged. From 2012- 2019, as Josh Bersin says 70% of global organisations are […]

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Developing Performance Review Systems in New World of Work
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Developing Performance Review Systems in New World of Work

One of the most effective ways to motivate your employees is to have a sincere and accurate appraisal system. Employees who feel recognized and valued are more likely to go that extra mile to help an organization achieve its objectives. A well-constructed performance management system can boost employee morale, reduce turnover, and inspire teams to […]

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Role of KRA/KPI in Performance Appraisal and How to set them for Employees
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Role of KRA/KPI in Performance Appraisal and How to set them for Employees

In today’s disruptive world where change and innovation has taken the center stage of driving the business, organization performance is measured with a close lens for its sustenance and growth. It is in this context that the organizations are driving towards becoming a high performing organization and aligning all functions with measured KPIs and KRAs […]

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Strategies to Re-engineer Performance Management System
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Strategies to Re-engineer Performance Management System

“People in many organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.” – ― Peter F. Drucker To start with, performance management was created to manage (i.e. control) the work of an industrialised workforce to maximise output. […]

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Challenges with Current Performance Review Systems and Future of Appraisals
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Challenges with Current Performance Review Systems and Future of Appraisals

It is no secret that many traditional performance appraisal processes fail to meet employees’ most basic needs for receiving feedback, coaching and recognition. Over a decade or so, Performance appraisal has transitioned from being called as ACR (Annual Confidential Reports) to performance appraisals to now being called as Performance Management. Although there is a change […]

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