In HR and talent management, Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) have long been the standard approach to addressing performance issues. Ostensibly designed to help employees improve, PIPs often serve ...

This is a sponsored column by attorneys John Berry and Kimberly Berry of Berry & Berry, PLLC, an employment and labor law firm located in Northern Virginia that specializes in federal employee, ...

How can unexpected successes be replicated? How can failures be mitigated? What steps can be taken to prevent future catastrophes? These are questions that every organization must grapple with, and ...

A tech employee, facing a performance improvement plan after reporting a manager's project delay, systematically gathered ...

Does a Performance Improvement Plan mean you should look for a new job or is there a way to improve and stay at the same company? Should you look for a new job if you’re given a performance ...

The past decade has seen an unprecedented level of concern and action focused on improving the quality of American health care. Catalyzed in part by two Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports—To Err Is ...

Would you be surprised if I told you feedback can hurt performance? Nearly three decades ago, researchers Kluger and DeNisi studied 607 experiments on feedback effectiveness and found that feedback, ...

There's a word-of-mouth Slack channel used by Amazon employees on its performance-improvement plan. Most employees post anonymously; one former worker likened it to a virtual support group. Employees ...