What is Adverse Impact and why you should care.

  What is Adverse Impact and why as an HR person you should care. Adverse impact relevant to any hiring plan, as it can appear without warning or intent. Beyond simply the intent to discriminant against a particular class (gender, ethnicity, etc.), adverse impact occurs when a measure used for decision-making (be it an assessment or performance appraisal) produces biased results. Adverse … [Read more...]

How to create a legally defensible performance management system.

How Legally Defensible is Your Appraisal Management System?One of the issues that must be considered when evaluating a performance management (PM) system is how well it would stand up in court. Not surprisingly, legally defensible PM criteria is in line with the criteria for good performance management systems. According to Aguinis (2007), good performance standards are related to the position, … [Read more...]

Which is Worse? Not Asking at All, or Asking the Wrong Questions?

Let me answer your question in the most straightforward way. Asking the wrong questions is worse than not asking any questions at all. Teachers, professors and even parents have been harping on us for most of our lives to engrain within us that there are “… no are no stupid questions” to be asked. In the real world, that is really not true. Indeed, in a business setting there are bad questions … [Read more...]