Teams That Prioritize Either Learning or Performance Perform Better
Sep 12, 2025 · Performance management practices and systems often encourage teams to “innovate and deliver,” pushing them toward high standards while asking them to be flexible and experimental. …
Research: Performance Reviews That Actually Motivate Employees
Nov 7, 2024 · Performance reviews are an important tool to help managers and organizations motivate and engage their workforce. Narrative-based feedback provides employees with more personalized …
Employee performance management - HBR
Jan 20, 2026 · Find new ideas and classic advice for global leaders from the world's best business and management experts.
When a Performance Improvement Plan Could Help Your Employee
Nov 6, 2024 · A Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) is a formal approach to remedy an employee’s performance gaps, including failures to meet specific job goals or behavior-related concerns. The …
Performance indicators - HBR
Dec 12, 2025 · Find new ideas and classic advice for global leaders from the world's best business and management experts.
KPIs Aren’t Just About Assessing Past Performance
Sep 23, 2021 · Many companies track KPIs as a way of predicting performance. To really exploit the predictive power of KPIs, though, you need to map how the KPIs for your key stakeholders feed into …
Research: Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Have to Stress Workers Out
Oct 17, 2024 · Pay-for-performance (PFP) is considered one of the strongest tools to motivate employees, yet despite its popularity, it can sometimes create stress for workers that results in …
HBR Guide to Performance Management
The "HBR Guide to Performance Management" provides a new multi-step, cyclical process to help you keep track of your employees' work, identify where they need to improve, and ensure they're growing …
Why Feedback Can Make Work More Meaningful - Harvard Business …
Jan 24, 2025 · Managers have long been told that feedback is critical to organizational success. They attend training after training to learn how to give effective feedback in order to manage …
Reinventing Performance Management - Harvard Business Review
At Deloitte we’re redesigning our performance management system. This may not surprise you. Like many other companies, we realize that our current process for evaluating the work of our people ...