http://www.starwayservice.com/blog Employee Performance Management for Middle Market Business Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:34:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What's the attractiveness of forced rankings in employee performance management?  Why, in effect, decide in advance that every work group must have 10% losers?  The answer: it is a simple, bold--and therefore efficient--move that makes up for the failure of the organization to take the time necessary to develop its ... http://www.starwayservice.com/blog/?p=7 Human resource managment best practices are readily known.  Harvard Business Review, Business Week and even newspapers carry articles about effective people managment processess these days. Indeed, most executives are very conversant on current talent management practices and public company annual reports talk about people as a key asset. So why do ... http://www.starwayservice.com/blog/?p=6 In small and mid-sized organizations, the HR Manager role is often a solo assignment or one with only a shared support person.  This poses a problem.  This problem might be called The Tyranny of Service. In other words, in a small HR department, the demands and expectations regarding service, both to ... http://www.starwayservice.com/blog/?p=5 With Process Improvement, Quality Improvement, LEAN and other initiatives becoming nearly standard practice, managers readily understand that all operational work processess should be considered for standardization, measurement, documentation, flow charting and the like.  The questions arises, Why not human resources management processess?  Said another way, isn't employment interviewing a work process?  Isn't an annual ... http://www.starwayservice.com/blog/?p=4