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Top 50 Problems with Performance Appraisals by Dr John Sullivan

Synergita

For example, in one organization new hires were automatically given an average rating for their first year, regardless of their actual performance. One top performing hire I knew abruptly quit after receiving this cultural gift. Inconsistency across managers — some managers are naturally “easy raters” while others are not.

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Ultimate HR Calendar 2023: Key Dates (+How To Celebrate Them)

Vantage Circle

Valentine's Day: It's the season of love, and why limit it to romantic partners anyway? Still, our favorite is when we assign reward points to everyone in the organization so they can redeem them on the gift of their choice. Make a commitment to be more inclusive, starting right from the hiring process.

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Turn Hunter-Gatherers Into Farmers: How Modern Talent Acquisition Can Adopt Millenia-Old Evolutionary Changes to Hire Better and Faster

Eightfold

For decades, talent-acquisition teams have been built around the idea that all talent must be found externally, over-optimizing tools and processes around the theory that the best hire is going to start as a stranger. The cost of hiring exceptional talent from the outside is far more than the cost of promoting from within.

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4 Benefits of Employee Rewards for a Business & Examples of Companies Implementing Them

Empuls

Even if an organization hires a new employee, it needs to spend time and money on training and the right orientation. Rewarding has proved an antidote to this all-too-prevalent malice. The crux of it was formed by its thoughtful, humane, and creative employees' rewards and recognition programs. The result?