Why many employers need to go back to basics posted by www.hrpcenter.com – February 1, 2012 Last year had its human resources (HR) and industrial relations (IR) challenges, many due to an economic climate which is going to continue playing a major role in 2012. However, most challenges result from employers’ mistakes and foolhardy approaches, inadequate IR/labour law knowledge and skills, inadequate policies/rules and so on. This is the time of the year when line managers and HR managers...

Avoid the Feedback Sandwich to Promote Employee Performance posted by www.hrpcenter.com – February 1, 2012 Interested in knowing whether to use the feedback sandwich approach when you provide feedback about performance to employees? I wouldn’t go there. The feedback sandwich is insulting, ineffective, and misleading. It muddies the waters when you want to make performance problems transparent. Long touted as a way to minimize defensiveness and unhappiness about feedback from the employee’s boss,...

Alternative Performance Rating Systems posted by www.hrpcenter.com – January 30th, 2012 Nearly every aspect of business has a “gold standard”—a practice that’s considered the best of the best. But, all too often, those same standards become outdated or simply irrelevant for the times. In HR, the “behavioral anchored rating system” (BARS), which works by assigning a numerical value to specific behaviors needed for individual job duties, is often considered king. BARS helps...