A few weeks back we discussed Money vs. Happiness, which is a key concept when it comes to compensation. Pay for performance continues to be a key issue for HR professionals and we will be doing a three part series with David Creelman on pay for performance over the course of the next two weeks. Today, we’ll look at how pay motivates humans and how the “mechanical model” of compensation just doesn’t work.

Pay for performance [...]

According to Donna Wright, noted international expert, consultant, and author of The Ultimate Guide to Competency Assessment in Healthcare, if you’re completing competency assessments just to meet regulatory requirements – you’re missing the point.

Competency assessment is much more than looking at your employees’ various accreditations and professional skill sets. 

It’s about having the knowledge, skills, attitudes and abilities to do the job. It’s about applying a skill set to [...]

In this contributed post, Andrew Call of eTundra’s The Backburner discusses why restaurant owners and managers need to evaluate their people management skills when assessing poor employee performance. Andrew offers some restaurant management tips including the importance of consistent communication and strong leadership.

Owning and operating a restaurant is as daunting as it is promising. For both the new restaurateur and the seasoned professional the daily ins and outs can get [...]

Ah, the most un-wonderful time of the year (excluding tax-filing time) — the dreaded annual employee review. Despised and avoided by many, the employee appraisal process is often viewed as mandatory yearly assault that delivers little or no value.

In fact, some would say that that the negative outweighs the positive in terms of frustration, stress and diminished morale (Hey, I deserve a higher rating than that!)

Maybe it is worse than tax time.

How do you eliminate [...]

The goal of coaching and feedback is to help employees be their best. One of the best ways managers can do this is to engage employees in discussions about their performance to help them arrive at deeper self-awareness.

So what do you do when an employee has a worldview of their performance that has nothing to do with your reality?

Ignore their perspective, and your ROI on the conversation is the equivalent of talking to a government [...]