Is Performance Management Performing?

Organizations are spending millions of dollars and thousands of hours on performance management. Yet too few leaders are confident that their approaches are supporting the workforce of the future or improving the performance of the business itself.

It is time to revitalize performance management: To become more aware of the diversity of different segments of the workforce, to become open and more transparent, to foster real-time … [ Read more ]

Trends Reshaping the Future of HR: Digital Radically Disrupts HR

Digital technology is changing the face of human resources. Top-performing HR organizations will likely respond by becoming smaller, less centralized and more project-oriented. Expertise in marketing and analytics will be highly valued. New ways to identify, attract and nurture talent could proliferate, with more emphasis given to workplace culture.

How Well Do You Know Your Workforce?

For years, the human resources function has shouldered much of the responsibility for managing people, but it has often had to do so with too little real information and too segregated from the business. Talent analytics can change all this—revolutionizing not only the practice of HR but also how insights about workforce performance can be derived and applied to achieve real improvements in business performance. … [ Read more ]

Transforming Workforce Performance in the New Business Reality

In the post-recession business reality, performance management is becoming a key enabler of high performance. Accenture explores the practices of leading companies to help provide a blueprint for a more effective approach to performance management.

The New Talent Equation

The objective at the heart of successful talent management in difficult times: to think ahead and to think more strategically about creating a workforce with the capabilities to outperform the competition as the economy turns around. A number of fresh approaches are available to help companies go beyond responses focused only on staff reductions.