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Performance Management Tools: The Ultimate Guide

Primalogik

Performance management tools have become essential to HR operations. Not only do they assist the HR department; they also help managers throughout the organization to guide their teams to success. Consider that only 2% of companies feel they have a great approach to performance management. Table of Contents 1.

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Growing a Healthy Compensation Program -- Part Two

Compensation Cafe

Case background: In the first article , we looked at the compensation habits of a company called Healthy Gadgets, a new medical device company that began with fewer than 100 employees. If the manager or the recruit is a "squeaky wheel" about the salary, HR may contact the outside recruiter for compensation insights.

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Help Managers with the Challenges of Video Calls

Compensation Cafe

These are just a few of the scenarios that can happen in performance management and salary discussions -- but remember that we'll be doing most of these discussions on video this year. Take breaks between calls to manage "Zoom fatigue" which could influence your attention span and tone of voice.

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Overlooked Fundamentals of Compensation Strategy

Compensation Cafe

Behavioral economics research can teach us many ways that our programs can be more effective. So if we remain unaware of the research findings we will literally be less effective than we can be. Managers and executives are just as happy with the status quo--although they'd never admit it. Here are a few. In a time of 2.5%

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Cafe Classic: There May Still Be Enough Time!

Compensation Cafe

You may have already completed performance appraisal discussions, but performance should certainly be part of the discussion when 2014 increases and bonuses are covered with employees. Explaining consistently to all employees, how the budgets have been allocated for merit increases and bonuses.

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Growing a Healthy Compensation Program

Compensation Cafe

If you're an HR office of one, busily juggling everything from beneficiary forms to incentive awards, it's hard to believe that you share any pressures with other HR managers. Case background: Healthy Gadgets is a new medical device company with fewer than 100 employees who both research and produce its products.

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Growing a Healthy Compensation Program -- The Turning Point

Compensation Cafe

Case background: Let's take another look at Healthy Gadgets, the medical device company whose growth we've been tracking through the series. Healthy Gadgets' HR staff institutes a system that, they communicate, "we'll never stray from" -- no matter who is making the pay decisions: HR, execs or managers. The employee count is up to 843.