Topic
performance management
132 published works
Pannone Corporate News and Opinion
Performance management: why 2020 is a lesson to remember
Before the coronavirus pandemic began, it was estimated that around 4.6 million people in the UK worked from home. Despite being in the millions, this represented just 14% of the…
Alex MacMillan: Employment Law Barrister
The problem with the forced distribution model
In 2019 the UK’s civil service changes its mind about its use of forced distributions (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/971013/SCS-PM-UpdatedGuidance-April2021_1.0.pdf ), deciding instead to move to more flexible, non-mandatory objective setting. The change came…
The Employer Report
Taking Your Pay Equity Analysis To The Next Level: Performance Ratings Audits
By Anna Brown, Caroline Burnett, Susan F. Eandi, Emily Harbison
Most US multinationals conduct regular pay equity audits, but for further insights into promoting equity and removing potential bias in compensation, companies are increasingly exploring adding performance ratings audits to…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Reward the Best Performers and Make Tough Decisions
Several years ago, I saw Bruce Springsteen in concert. (Remember those?) It was over three hours long and by the time we were done, I remember turning to my friend…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Atanasov and Boutchkova on Performance Metrics and Executive Compensation
Vladimir A. Atanasov and Maria Boutchkova have posted Striking Oil in the Boardroom: Overpaying Executives through Manipulating Performance Metrics on SSRN with the following abstract:Using hand-collected proxy statement data, we…
LawVision Blog
Unlock the Power of Positivity – Sustain Performance in Stressful Times
By Yvonne Nath
By Yvonne Nath with guest author Heath Harris, Director of Legal Operations Innovation at Fenwick & West Morale improvement may be the most inexpensive tool we can use to improve…
Ohio Employer Law Blog
Just being in a protected class is never enough to protect an employee’s job
When Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation terminated Mary Lou Stelter from her sales position, she claimed disability discrimination relating to a workplace back injury and her related two-month leave of…
Capital Markets
SEC Provides Guidance on Performance Metrics in MD&A; Proposes Financial Disclosure Changes
By Rob Evans
The Securities and Exchange Commission, on January 30, 2020, issued guidance to reporting companies about the use of key performance indicators and other metrics, including those that are non-GAAP financial…
Stacey R. Ball Blog
Termination for Poor Performance
Employers will sometimes terminate their employees for poor performance. From the employers perspective, poor performance can constitute “just cause” dismissal. Despite just cause termination, the threshold to establish “just cause”…
Jaffe Blog
SMART is Smarter
Peter Drucker, known as the founder of modern management, once said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” To Drucker’s point, if you are a professional service provider…