Negotiation-Base Performance Management Presentation Notes
The material you are about to access includes some basic information on negotiation based performance management and appraisal, and the powerpoint slides that went with the NY State Human Resources Association Conference in Syracuse, on May 14, 2001, delivered by…
How To Create An Employee’s Sense They Do Meaningful and Important Work: Start With Expectations
Meaningful Work Requires Employees Know What’s Expected We’ve known all along that employees who believe their work is important, and know what is expected of them will tend to be much better employees than their confused brethren. How do you…
How Employee Engagement Attempts Backfire And Have The Opposite Effect
Why Employee Engagement Efforts Return Zero Results Or Worse Unfortunately, efforts to improve employee engagement can easily backfire, either ending up, on balance, with a few people improving, many people staying the same, and some people actually getting less engaged….
The Bullshit Factor: The Claims Of Correlation Between Higher Employee Engagement And Stock Prices
Relationship Between Employee Engagement Scores And Stock Prices You may have come across research that looked at the relationship between stock prices and employee engagement scores. If you analyze the data just right, what you can get is a positive…
Making Sense Of The Research That Looks At The Relationship Between Employee Engagement And Business Outcomes
Employee Engagement And Business Success? Over the last years, various research companies have published research reports and white papers “proving” there is a relationship between higher levels of employee engagement and various business indicators, like revenue, profits, and even stock…
The Biggest Determinants Of Employee Effort Are Beyond The Control Of Employers
Companies Don’t Have It Within Their Power To Increase Employee Engagement and Employee Effort One of the assumptions underlying company efforts to improve employee engagement is that the company is in control of the factors that will increase it. After…
Fundamental Confusion: Employee Engagement As Means, Or As Ends
Confusion About Employee Engagement As Tool Or As Goal One of the criticisms leveled at the employee engagement movement is that when companies forge ahead at attempting to improve engagement, they forget that employee engagement is not the important goal….
Impossible To Assess The Value Of Employee Engagement Efforts
Companies Unable To Evaluate Success of Employee Engagement Efforts In a perfect world, it would be important for companies that invest in anything to be able to evaluate whether that investment returns value to the company. Companies evaluate their marketing…
All About Verbal Abuse In Pictures
Are you ready to delve into the complex and often overlooked issue of verbal abuse? Whether you are a concerned individual, a survivor seeking validation, or an advocate looking for new ways to raise awareness, this post will provide you…
Visiting The Long History of Political Attack Language
From Wit And Humor To Verbal Assassination If you have been around for enough elections, you may have noticed that the election campaign of 2016 seems like the bloodiest attack mode campaign ever. And you might be correct. It’s hard…
The Subtleties of Verbal Abuse: Learn To Identify When You Are Being Manipulated
The Power of Language We’re all familiar with verbal abuse that is “in your face”, and that involves yelling, swearing, direct insults and similar tactics. It’s ugly, but the one saving grace is that if it’s aimed at you, you…
