Peformance Management
9 ways in which you can create a high-performance environment
- Published on 22 Oct 2012
- Riaan Steenberg
Riaan Steenberg of Regenesys Business School speaks about how to go about creating a high-performance environment.
1. Broadly define what you expect your employees to achieve
Companies need to embrace the new rules of engagement – or else
- Published on 11 Oct 2012
- Natalie Maroun
Companies are under increasing pressure from employees, and the markets in which they operate, to embrace the new rules of engagement - or become extinct.
Natalie Maroun, lead strategist at local performance agency LRMG, says that by 2020, the workplace will look and operate very differently to the way it does today.
Crowd sourcing: Social performance management tool
- Published on 27 Aug 2012
- Lydia Cillie-Schmidt
Josh Bersin predicted: “In 2012, we will see the practices of ‘social’ start to revolutionise rewards and recognition, learning, performance management, recruiting, and career management”.Eric Mosley in a Harvard Business Review Blog concurs, saying that, “We're on the cusp of a major change that uses the power of social to fundamentally shift from a traditional, top-down management hierarchy to a new bottom-up approach”.
Creating a virtual office
- Published on 10 Aug 2012
- HR Pulse News Desk
Not too long ago, stalwarts in the corporate world considered organisational design as being about designing an organisation's office. Their sentiments were valid because, until 2001, there had been hardly any work done in the field. However, with the advent of the Internet, thriving businesses can now be constructed in virtual offices, which can employ up to two hundred workers.
HR as a strategic business partner
- Published on 19 Jul 2012
- Dedre Lemmer
Creating a comprehensive and compelling HR strategic plan, one that is geared to enable the achievement of business objectives, is vital to secure HR’s position as a strategic partner. HR’s credibility in the boardroom is undermined when the strategic plan fails to take cognisance of key business drivers.
