One in eight pressured to compromise ethical standards

One in eight (12%) UK employees have felt pressure to compromise their organisation’s ethical standards, according to the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE)?

Breaking out of the sycophant cycle

As the stakes are raised it naturally becomes more difficult to hear or acknowledge negative feedback

Half of workers think they're being monitored by bosses

Workers worry bosses will use surveillance data to set unfair targets, micromanage them and take away autonomy

Six symptoms of creatively-dysfunctional organisations

Relegating creativity to child’s play is to underestimate both its nature and value

Harnessing positive stress: Lessons from the England football team

The latest research into stress shows that positive stress can be trained and developed in individuals

Becoming a top HR performer

CEB (now Gartner) analysed the careers of more than 600 HR professionals and focused on the 30% who are the most successful

ForViva: Building future-focused PDRs

ForViva’s old performance development review (PDR) process was outdated and time consuming, so it was overhauled

Turning disengaged compliance into transformation

Managers may not be particularly engaged by monitoring performance but many still need help to do their 'managing' well

Reviewing the annual performance review

Between the increasing adoption of agile processes and technological advances, our workforce wants and needs more frequent feedback

Five things businesses can learn from TSB

As the new kid on the banking block TSB has seized the opportunity to do things differently

Managers failing to set targets

Research calls into question managers' approaches towards staff development

Cappelli: No one-size-fits-all approach to performance management

Organisations should consider rolling out different systems for different parts of their workforce or for different countries