CIPD annual conference round-up: Day one

What the HR magazine team learnt at the first day of the CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition

Rewriting appraisals at the Home Office

Chief people officer Paula Leach?? explains how performance management has been overhauled to ensure a focus on raising performance

Performance management – time for HR to let go?

We've known for nearly 50 years why this assessment-dominated, backward-focused ritual doesn’t improve performance

HCL Technologies' Shergill: Employee-led organisations are the future

Employers must create cultures conducive to 'ideapreneurship' to succeed

The six conditions for high performance

Our obsession with performance management has reached fever pitch, but the approach is misguided

Performance appraisals benefit self-promoting employees

Performance appraisals favour self-promoting employees and unfairly underrate modest workers, according to Brian Kropp, HR practice leader at practice insight and technology company CEB.

Are annual appraisals losing impact?

The view that performance management is broken is gathering pace, but forward-thinking companies are shaking things up.

How to ditch HR hierarchies

Traditional hierarchies still have a place in some sectors. Large, complex organisations rely on those chains of command. But do they always add value? Just because it has always been done that way...

Lucy Adams: ‘appraisals don’t work’

The annual appraisal system is not fit for purpose former BBC HR director Lucy Adams has claimed this morning.

Performance improvement plans and the culture of fear

As I’m sure you know, the term ‘decimate’ has its origins in the Roman army where, to snuff out the risk of mutiny or punish disobedience, one in 10 soldiers in a cohort would be killed. In a nice...

Can appraisals transform ailing culture at Goldman Sachs?

The past year has been somewhat turbulent for the previously non-stick investment bank, Goldman Sachs. With out-of-court settlements in excess of $550m in response to Federal charges, castigation in...

A third of NHS staff still don't receive annual appraisal

One third of NHS staff still do not receive an annual appraisal or personal development plan six years after agreeing the Knowledge and Skills Framework, according to Unison.