In HR and talent management, Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) have long been the standard approach to addressing performance issues. Ostensibly designed to help employees improve, PIPs often serve ...

Performance improvement processes are an integral part of an ambulatory surgery center’s long-term financial, operational and clinical success. ASCs must maintain a sound and robust performance ...

How can unexpected successes be replicated? How can failures be mitigated? What steps can be taken to prevent future catastrophes? These are questions that every organization must grapple with, and ...

This is a sponsored column by attorneys John Berry and Kimberly Berry of Berry & Berry, PLLC, an employment and labor law firm located in Northern Virginia that specializes in federal employee, ...

A Performance Improvement Plan (“PIP”) is a long-standing HR tool for managing underperforming employees. Employers often use a PIP to document deficiencies and outline specific goals the ...

The past decade has seen an unprecedented level of concern and action focused on improving the quality of American health care. Catalyzed in part by two Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports—To Err Is ...

The Wall Street Journal recently ran a column entitled “The Most Hated Way of Firing Someone Is More Popular Than Ever. It’s the Age of the PIP,” arguing that using a performance improvement plan (PIP ...

I read an article on performance improvement plans (PIPs). It got me thinking about how companies can better approach employee performance. When a person in a workplace is not achieving outcomes, they ...

A PIP outlines an employee's deficiencies and provides a roadmap for improvement. Managers may use a PIP to help an employee improve or to manage them out of a role. A PIP can be an opportunity to ...

Would you be surprised if I told you feedback can hurt performance? Nearly three decades ago, researchers Kluger and DeNisi studied 607 experiments on feedback effectiveness and found that feedback, ...

Does a Performance Improvement Plan mean you should look for a new job or is there a way to improve and stay at the same company? Should you look for a new job if you’re given a performance ...