Managers who take a future-focused approach to performance management perceive the process to be much more effective than those who believe it is simply a diagnostic exercise, according to recent Gartner research.
Less than a third of HR leaders strongly agree that senior executives prioritise human capital risks currently facing their organisations, according to Mercer's Global Talent Trends 2019 report.
Employers' performance management and disciplinary processes are being more heavily scrutinised, with a lawyer stressing HR has a crucial role in ensuring leaders follow established procedures.
Confusion abounds about the role formal warnings play during performance improvement processes, but a lawyer has shared best practice tips on when, and how, to warn employees about underperformance.
What constitutes fairness when managing an underperformer? How long should they be given to improve, and under what circumstances? In this webcast, a lawyer shares guiding principles around PIP timeframes and targets, communication and support during the performance management process, and more.
Employers are now much more invested in designing their workplaces for better engagement, productivity and performance, but failing to take some crucial first steps can undermine these efforts, according to an expert.
An employee who received 19 warnings for performance issues before he was eventually sacked has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission his dismissal was unfair.
An employee's claim that he was forced to resign because his employer "relentlessly" targeted him for poor performance has been rejected in the Fair Work Commission.
The Fair Work Commission has awarded an employee the maximum compensation for unfair dismissal, after finding his employer's failure to follow its own disciplinary process was "puzzling".
Costly legal disputes continue to highlight the many risks employers face when managing, disciplining, or dismissing employees while they are absent, injured or incapacitated. Attend this webinar for an up-to-date review of the legal framework applying to workplace absenteeism, injury and incapacity, and lessons from recent case law.
