Objective Setting and Performance Planning

By Ann Heidkamp - A slightly animated text presentation onf writing effective goals and their importance for motivating employees (Added: 24-Oct-2010 Hits: 443 )

By Lynn Summers and Shabbir Dahod - The advantages of an empowered workforce have been recognized for some time. Organizations have attempted to achieve heightened levels of empowerment through a variety of methods and programs. It requires concerted effort to create the conditions that foster empowerment and ongoing effort to sustain those conditions. And it is mostly through the adoption of certain management practices that these conditions can be created. Goal-driven performance management (GDPM) lends itself ideally as a tool to further an organization's efforts to create and sustain an empowered workforce. The primary purpose of GDPM, at the organizational level, is to orchestrate the talent and energy within a corporation toward achievement of the organization's strategic goals. At the individual level, its purpose is to enable managers and their direct reports to collaborate in setting meaningful goals... (Added: 24-Oct-2010 Hits: 245 )