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A tribunal has rejected an employee's compensation claim for a psych injury, after finding her employer's performance management process was "beyond reproach".

Workplace politics, and a lack of external benchmarking, is causing many high-potential development programs to fail, according to a talent management specialist.

An employee's psychological injury was exacerbated by a performance management process, a tribunal has found in chastising the HR department for failing to help the situation.

Revelations of misconduct emerging from the banking and finance Royal Commission underline the need for all employers to overhaul their approach to setting performance targets, according to a corporate governance expert.

An employer that admitted to sacking an employee after having had "a gutful" of her poor attitude has been ordered to compensate her for unfair dismissal.

Team meetings fall into four distinct categories, and when these are clear to everyone it's much easier to stop them becoming time-wasting talkfests, according to a leadership author.

An HR manager's failure to investigate an employee's complaints about his performance management made his dismissal unfair, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

An employee has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that being placed on two performance improvement plans after receiving "outstanding" work appraisals amounted to bullying.

A manager who claimed his team members deliberately worked against him has won a compensation appeal, after a tribunal found "workplace friction" fell outside the reasonable administrative action exclusion.

A royal commission has highlighted some broad issues with the role of performance incentives, and performance management practices, in driving unwanted workplace cultures and behaviour.