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Sep 22, 2025 · Automation offers a way to address two interconnected challenges for Western manufacturers—lackluster productivity growth and labor shortages. But progress has been patchy, …

Like many other companies, Deloitte realized that its system for evaluating the work of employees—and then training them, promoting them, and paying them accordingly—was increasingly out of ...

When Netflix executives wrote a PowerPoint deck about the organization’s talent management strategies, the document went viral—it’s been viewed more than 5 million times on the web. Now one ...

Nov 23, 2020 · Companies have been struggling to define and improve accountability processes —from annual performance appraisals to routine check-ins with the boss — for decades, and most …

Hated by bosses and subordinates alike, traditional performance appraisals have been abandoned by more than a third of U.S. companies. The annual review’s biggest limitation, the authors argue ...

A performance culture drives execution. Companies need to reward other things, too, including agility, teamwork, and ambition. Execution should be driven from the top.

Mar 15, 2017 · Offering employees performance-based incentive pay is one common approach, and it usually takes one of two forms: bonuses are offered to individuals based on assessments of their …

Reprint: R1201F What makes for sustainable individual and organizational performance? Employees who are thriving—not just satisfied and productive but also engaged in creating the future. The ...

Aug 8, 2022 · Organizations are pretty good at solving specific problems as they arise, but many lack a set of criteria and goals to meet in order to maintain their ability to compete and grow. The author ...