Auto rating: Challenges and Solutions – Part 1

“A performance management system is the foundation of performance excellence in an organization and therefore it should be simple, straightforward, intuitive, aligned with organizational goals and have flavors of organization values.” – Kaustubh Sonalkar, CEO, Essar Corporate Services LLP One…

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Employee Performance Rating: Do we Keep it or Scrap it!

Employee performance rating has become the modern day blasphemy in the corporate world. Fortune 500 companies have either scrapped or moving away from annual appraisal system. Technology giants like IBM, Microsoft and Dell showed the way and the professional services…

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Top 50 Problems people face with Performance Appraisals

(Some) 90 percent of performance appraisal processes are inadequate. – Salary.com survey. In conversations with HR leaders and employees, the talent management process that suffers from the most disdain around the world is the performance appraisal. It’s one of the…

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Say Goodbye to Forced Ranking System !!

Forced Ranking Model – An Overview Several organizations are using the painful forced ranking based Bell Curve model for measuring their employee’s performance metrics. I said painful because every organization will have their own B-curve that suits their structure and needs.  Managers are forced to come…

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Kissing Good-Bye to Bell Curve based Performance Reviews – What does it really mean?

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-opportunities/the-bell-curve-comes-under-the-scanner/article7475324.ece http://blogs.adobe.com/adobelife/adobe-life-magazine/v1/check-in/ http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/infosys-bids-goodbye-to-bell-curve-for-performance-assessment-attrition-comes-down/articleshow/49110714.cms There are several articles like the above on the net. Most of these articles elaborate the challenges on the annual cycles, bell curve, etc.  We wanted to understand the solution these companies (companies from the articles mentioned…

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