by Dick Grote | Sep 15, 2008 | Performance Management, Talent Management
Is there any management process that is as mocked, as resented, as disparaged as performance appraisal? Scott Adams might have to retire his Dilbert cartoon if he didn’t have performance appraisal to lampoon. And the way that performance appraisals are done in too...
by Dick Grote | Jun 15, 2008 | Performance Improvement, Talent Management
For seventy-five years, American organizations have used a fairly standardized procedure to handle familiar personnel problems such as absenteeism, poor performance, and other misconduct. This approach, usually called “progressive discipline,” provides for an...
by Dick Grote | May 15, 2008 | Forced Ranking, Talent Management
There can certainly be concerns about the forced ranking process I advocate. Turns out, most of those concerns are actually benefits. First objection—it’s arbitrary. Well certainly using a predetermined distribution (like top 20 percent, vital 70 percent, and...
by Dick Grote | Mar 27, 2007 | Performance Management, Talent Management
Getting Managers to Do Employee Performance Appraisals If your employee performance management system is not effective – in other words, your managers aren’t meeting their responsibility of getting their employee performance appraisals written, approved and delivered...
by Dick Grote | Nov 20, 2006 | Performance Appraisal, Talent Management
If promotions are what everybody—or almost everybody—wants, layoffs are what everyone wishes to avoid. But when economic realities force an organization to downsize, performance appraisal helps make sure that the most talented individuals are retained and that only...
by Dick Grote | Apr 12, 2006 | Talent Management
There sits Sally on the other side of the desk during her performance evaluation. She’s scowling. Her arms are folded tightly across her chest. Her lower lip is turned out in a way that communicates both rejection and contempt. She’s flipped the performance evaluation...
