The pandemic is over for now, at least, but it reminded us how important and potentially how fragile our mental health can be. And even though it’s over, the impact of it lingers on in our minds and consciousness. There are many reasons for it, but one of them I think...
Why it’s not easy It should not be difficult to be diverse, given how different we all are, but the way we have organised as societies and organizations has built in biases, pushing us to was inequality and sameness. When we recruit we look for people from certain...
Job crafting was first talked about (we think) in an article published by the Michigan Ross Business School in 2008, entitled ‘What is job crafting, and why does it matter?’ The writers, Berg, Dutton and Wrzesniewski, describe 3 forms of job crafting, When someone...
What Makes Them Different? De Waal’s research identified 35 characteristics that are common in all high performing organizations. They are almost all about people. The 35 characteristics fit into 5 categories: Quality of management Quality of people Openness and...
The Origins of Performance Appraisal Cappelli and Tavis include a short history of performance appraisal in their article. A kind of performance management through the ages. And it is ages. They traced the appraisal process back to the WWII US military, where it was...
The Story So Far Our group meets monthly and consists of the senior HR people in Investors in People accredited organizations. In our previous meeting, we asked ourselves “What is fundamentally wrong with performance management?” The question was inspired by an HBR...
