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A Practical Application – Performance Reviews

Joseph Lalonde

For many people, performance reviews seem like rather soulless exercises driven by organizational imperatives. Designed to measure performance in order to determine whether employees have met their goals and thus have contributed to the organization’s results, they are usually highly structured, formulaic, and data-oriented.

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The Changing Landscape of C-Suite Executive Tenures: Insights and Implications

N2Growth Blog

This trend is evident in the increasing use of performance-based incentives in executive compensation packages, which tie a significant portion of executive pay to specific, measurable goals. Companies are increasingly focusing on agility and adaptability, seeking leaders who can navigate rapidly changing business environments.

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8 Principles for Building a High-Performance Culture

Leading Blog

Great teams are not created with incentives, procedures, and perks. Being given a great problem to tackle and the right colleagues to tackle it with is the best incentive of all. Separate performance review and compensation systems. Treat People Like Adults. Yet no business is static. Don’t hire people that are stupid.

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Six Ways to Drive Employee Performance and Motivation

LDRLB

It’s hard for you, and the employee, to remember specific incidents when employee performance review time rolls around. Whether you tell him so during an employee performance review, or in the breakroom, an employee whose boss constantly calls him worthless, or a screw-up will feel a lot of emotions.

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Motivation: To Do or Not to Do

Leading Blog

For example, Michael and Afua both value money, and they both negotiate strongly for more compensation in performance reviews. Both Michael and Afua can be motivated with financial incentives, and they can also be motivated by framing a discussion about that incentive in the context of what they are moving away from or toward.

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Healthy Raises

Lead Change Blog

As leaders of their respective organizations, they need to be held to high standards and their reward should be closely correlated to the firm’s performance. Just like performance review, it drives incentive pay. While the shareholders approved all these pay packages, their effect is only felt in the coming years.

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Recognition Can Motivate Us At Work

The Horizons Tracker

Research from Rotman reminds us, however, that subjective performance evaluations are not without risk and can foster feelings of unfairness when they don’t go our way. “But we also see negative performance associated with them and a subjective decision has a potentially demotivating effect.”