Supervisors’ Most Common Performance Appraisal Mistakes
Yesterday, we shared the results of BLR’s 2014 Performance Management survey (BLR is CER’s parent company); today, the rest of the results.
Tag: Legal Performance Appraisals
‘But Nobody Told Me I Had To Get To Work On Time!’
Ridiculous as it sounds, “they never told me” is a standard defense in employment lawsuits. It plays to the jury’s sense of fairness, and it plays pretty well.
Free Report Friday– Legal Performance Appraisals; 10 Tips for Effective
Performance appraisals can help strengthen your case if you’re sued by an employee. Providing an inadequate evaluation, or no evaluation at all, can be used against you with devastating results. Juries tend to come down hard on employers who don’t appear to have given an employee a chance to improve.
Legal? Yes. Stupid? Absolutely.
How To Polish (or Pitch) Your Bad-Apple Employees
Every workplace has them: Those bad-apple employees who spoil the whole barrel.
What To Do About Employment “Brain Drain”?
A bunch of our most senior workers are preparing to retire in the next few years, and I’m frankly worried about what’s going to happen to our company when they’re gone. They possess years of experience and know-how that we have no idea how we’re going to replace, and new hires are harder and harder […]
Compensation: How Do We Set Up a Pay-for-Performance System?
How do we go about setting up a pay-for-performance incentive system? We are in the very early stages and just don’t know where to start. Thanks. —Anonymous in Alameda
Religious Discrimination: Employee Wins $6.5 Million Jury Verdict Because of Manager’s Favoritism; Lessons for Employers
A Northern California woman has won a jaw-dropping $6.5 million by convincing a jury that she was passed over for promotion by a supervisor who favored employees belonging to the same religious group as the supervisor. We’ll explain the case and provide pointers for avoiding similar “reverse bias” problems.
Performance: What Should We Do with an Employee Who Refuses to Acknowledge Performance Issues?
We have an employee who’s not up to par. We’ve tried to explain his shortcomings in disciplinary meetings and performance reviews, but he just refuses to acknowledge his performance problems. What do we do? —Anonymous
Performance Evaluations: Can You Give Me Pointers on Evaluating Our Workers?
We’re reworking our evaluation process and want to make sure we’re appraising workers properly. What should we keep in mind? And how should we address supervisors who procrastinate in completing the evaluations? That’s often a problem for us. Thank you. —Caroline M., HR Director in Oxnard