The Fair Work Commission has praised Telstra's approach to performance managing and ultimately dismissing an employee who repeatedly failed to meet her targets.
Shifting its performance management focus from a backwards look at what employees have achieved, to discussing their future goals, is helping to "ignite" performance at Accenture, its HR managing director says.
Two employers have been ordered to compensate workers they sacked for poor performance, after separate commissions found they mismanaged their respective processes.
Changing the terminology used around performance management has been key to gaining AMP employees' buy-in to its new framework, says one of its architects.
The concept of work-life balance is unhelpful in the 21st century, and instead of balance employees should be seeking integration of the two worlds, says a leading business mentor and author.
Shaping an environment where employees want and actively seek feedback vastly increases the likelihood of performance improvements, a neuroleadership coach says.
Progressive organisations are becoming better at managing the conflict between their talent needs of today and the future, and not "saving" top talent for roles yet to become available, an expert says.
Certain high-achieving employees are among the least resilient at work, and are unlikely to succeed in high-performance organisations without managers' assistance, top psychologists say.
Many employers think effective performance management hinges on either retaining or abandoning the traditional system of ratings and reviews, but execution is far more important than the system itself, a PwC partner says.
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