The June 17 memo from the Office of Personnel Management’s acting Director Charles Ezell, “Performance Management for Federal Employees”, reflects an important development for managing ...

At least 63% of employees don't trust their leader, which will translate to poor performance over time. Effective leadership has certain universal characteristics.

If your workplace is anything like most others, your team probably dreads the annual performance review process. Employees don’t like receiving reviews and managers don’t like conducting them ...

Large private sector companies like Walmart, FedEx and Home Depot invest in their people—establishing clear cultural values, employee development programs, and performance appraisal, enforcement ...

A new government report gives a mixed picture of underperforming federal employees. Workforce Management GAO report on "Issues Related to Poor Performance in the Federal Workplace" ...

"We set it up to retain our good employees," said Helena Inman, manager of NIST's performance management program. "It wasn't really set up to get rid of poor performers." NIST officials adopted a ...

Move a toxic employee — not relatively poor, but toxic — close to high performers and their performance may suffer. In that case, the study determined employee performance declined by 30 percent.