Originally published Jan 31, 2021. Updated with new information. Over the past four decades, OpenGov has worked with dozens of municipal governments across the United States, often focusing on setting ...

The Merit Systems Protection Board offered advice Wednesday on how best to improve employees’ performance, encouraging managers to provide “continuous” feedback and discouraging micromanagement. In a ...

August 18, 2025 - Employers often encounter significant challenges when addressing the performance of employees particularly when the performance counseling (e.g., a performance discussion and/or ...

Every organization has employees who fail to satisfy performance expectations. Research shows that the cost these poor performers exact on an organization exceeds the benefits of employing a high ...

Performance management is an ongoing process that helps organisations to align employee goals with broader organisational objectives. It involves setting expectations, providing regular feedback, ...

Fifty-nine percent of managers and employees see little value in their organization's current performance management processes, a Betterworks survey found. Of the 1,063 managers polled, 62% admitted ...

You’re a manager or an HR professional? Then you’ve probably been inundated with articles discussing annual performance reviews and how to break free from typical performance management practices. One ...

Across industries, organizations publish ESG commitments, climate targets and sustainability reports. Yet, the systems that ...

To fix performance management systems, C. Allen Gorman, Ph.D., industrial-organizational psychologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Collat School of Business, suggests implementing a ...

Companies that have structured management practices are more productive. That's according to new research from Cornell University and the University of Georgia. Structured management includes standard ...