Agha Hasan Abedi, founder of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, said it well: “The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.” Of course, investing in your people
If you poke around in the business section of your local bookstore, you’re bound to find an assortment of books on management and perhaps even more specifically, performance management. Learning not only theory but how to actually implement good performance
Why do so many great employees leave their jobs and join different companies? The problems that lead to quitting share two major characteristics: first, they are preventable; and second, they often begin with management. In order to prevent the large
A simple rule of thumb for HR management: provide and expect the best in your employees. In order to motivate staff and ensure that your employee turnover rate is low, follow this golden rule, which could actually be applied to
When an employee begins a new job, it’s critical to start off on the right foot. Employee turnover is a wasteful, costly phenomenon that happens to too many organizations. It isn’t necessarily true that you’re hiring “bad employees”, but that
I’ve already mentioned employee dread of performance reviews; but what about the managers giving the reviews? Surveys report that managers also harbor a strong dislike for performance reviews, oftentimes because an organization’s employee performance development is often lacking. Oftentimes, supervisors
