Editor's Note: Last summer we posted an announcement from Gerry Ledford (one of our profession's leading scholars) introducing a new academic study focused on leading edge performance management practices and an invitation for any qualified organizations to participate. For the past year, I have been leading research on cutting-edge performance management practices at the Center for Effective Organizations (CEO), University of Southern California. MORE

Jenny is the CLO of SAP and has just written a book, Data Driven, but most of her session focused on a sales capability development programme at SAP. Identifying leading indicators including both performance variables e.g. the sales close ratio, and behavioural feedback. MORE

Applied Psychology in Talent Management (8th ed.) is the newest edition of the Applied Psychology in Human Resource Management textbook by Wayne Cascio and Herman Aguinis. The title has changed with “Talent Management” replacing “Human Resource Management.” MORE

In fact, most experienced compensation professional are able to craft apparently objective survey comparisons to produce any number they want; that is one of the reasons compensation is as much art as science. Internal equity will always get higher priority than external competitiveness. MORE

These can differ between organizations, but usually, they do include financial performance, customer satisfaction, organizational member engagement, and an increased capacity to adapt and renew the organization. Total quality management. Human Resource Management Interventions. MORE

Comic book fans have long pored over maintaining the genealogy of their favorite comic book universes. In particular, as HR management has become a more complicated and intricate profession, the software designed to support the profession has become a maze of intersecting, overlapping, and competing product areas. HR Management. HR Management software is often used as an umbrella term for many different types of software. Talent Management. MORE

We love competing with greatness! A few other notes: This is organic (not total) traffic — We’re using ahref’s measurement of organic traffic because we find it to be the best apples-to-apples comparison of traffic to HR blog pages. Performance Management. MORE