Employee performance reviews take time and effort — and aren’t always conducted very efficiently. According to surveys, nearly 60% of businesses use basic spreadsheets to track and monitor staff ...

Continuous performance management can boost morale and improve communication. Learn how to implement continuous performance management in your company.

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It’s that time of year again: annual performance reviews—a process that’s historically been time-consuming and stressful for both managers and employees alike.

August 18, 2025 - Employers often encounter significant challenges when addressing the performance of employees particularly when the performance counseling (e.g., a performance discussion and/or ...

Management consulting firm McKinsey argues, “Effective performance management systems [are] designed to help people get better in their work, and they offer clarity in career development and ...

To fix performance management systems, C. Allen Gorman, Ph.D., industrial-organizational psychologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Collat School of Business, suggests implementing a ...

Managers often use performance reviews to mold and shape employee behaviors and results. They trust that formally telling high performers what they’re doing wrong one to two times a year will lead to ...

Financial stress has made its way into the workplace—in more ways than many of us may realize. This report offers critical insights from a survey of 5000 employees and 500 HR professionals across ...

The Office of Personnel Management has just issued detailed new requirements for agency performance management systems, and while I will take issue with some of the details on technical and policy ...