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	<title>Talent Junction - An HR Blog &#187; Employee Appraisals</title>
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		<title>Utilizing Employee Performance Appraisal Systems optimally?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 15:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maj. Gen. B.K. Bhatia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
An employee performance appraisal process runs a few times during the year. If designed appropriately, significantly more information can be captured and analyzed by organizations. This may require some modifications to the appraisal instrument such that it can be used for employee feedback, self development and studying the rating patterns of supervisors besides a host [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting the Performance Appraisal Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tushar Bhatia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most companies want to appraise their employees on a periodic basis and their Human Resources department is generally responsible to manage this process. I have often seen that the buy-in and participation from the Line managers is not as much as one would expect. Based on my meetings with a large number of HR managers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Performance Companies Focus on Performance Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gireesh Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We often listen from the successful business leaders that “People are our strength”.  Recently I read the book &#8220;The High Performance Entrepreneur&#8221; written by Subroto Baghchi. He is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Mindtree Consulting, one of India&#8217;s most admired software companies.
Mindtree has grown from 0 to 3500 people and crossed $ 102 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Case Study: Performance Management System for Educational Institutions</title>
		<link>http://www.empxtrack.com/blog/11/case-study-performance-management-softwar-for-educational-institutions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.empxtrack.com/blog/11/case-study-performance-management-softwar-for-educational-institutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gireesh Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the need for talented workforce is growing worldwide, so is the need for faculty &#38; staff with requisite skills in the educational institutions to produce the base for generating such a work force. Businesses are continuously demanding fresh talent which can meet challenges of twenty-first century through innovative and out-of-the box thinking. Business leaders [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>Post-Recession Challenges of Talent Management</title>
		<link>http://www.empxtrack.com/blog/10/post-recession-challenges-of-talent-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gireesh Sharma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Compensation Planning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Employee Appraisals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recovering Economies
After a year or so the news on recession is taking a U-turn (not a V-turn though). Officially, analysts are reporting that recession is over, including Google CEO.   While it will take some time for recession to pave the way for prosperity and growth for business in general, the prosperity is already [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Importance of HR Data for a CEO</title>
		<link>http://www.empxtrack.com/blog/08/ceo-needs-hr-reports-investors-vc-funding-ipo-top-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gireesh Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[HR Questions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to believe that HR Data was useful for HR Departments only since the department was responsible for employee development &#38; management activities. Alternately, the CFO and CEO were only interested in metrics such as cost of hire, total compensation, cost for training etc which were more oriented towards financial goals and treated employee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Human Resources (HR) Software Download Facts</title>
		<link>http://www.empxtrack.com/blog/04/free-human-resources-hr-software-download-facts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.empxtrack.com/blog/04/free-human-resources-hr-software-download-facts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gireesh Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[HRMS (HRIS)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free HR Software
Many visitors on EmpXtrack&#8217;s website come to look for  Free HR software. Because there are many softwares in different domains that come for FREE, they expect that there can be a Free Human Resources Software too. This post will discuss &#8220;Is there any free lunch (software) at all?&#8221; for Human Resources Management. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>60</slash:comments>
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		<title>Employee Appraisal Scores can be DECEPTIVE</title>
		<link>http://www.empxtrack.com/blog/03/employee-appraisal-scores-can-be-deceptive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.empxtrack.com/blog/03/employee-appraisal-scores-can-be-deceptive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gireesh Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recession has done at least one good thing for organizations. Shifting the FOCUS from Gut-feelings to qualitative and quantitative analysis of business performance and decisions.
&#8220;I think Steve is a great guy.&#8221; doesn&#8217;t work anymore. It has to be &#8220;Look at  John&#8217;s sales performance report. It says he is doing great job.&#8221;
The next thing that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why employee performance appraisals are ineffective, sometimes?</title>
		<link>http://www.empxtrack.com/blog/01/effective-employee-performance-appraisals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.empxtrack.com/blog/01/effective-employee-performance-appraisals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gireesh Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my HR Community friends,  Basheer wrote to me:
&#62; Dear Mr. Gireesh Sharma,
 &#62;
&#62; When most people consider traditional performance appraisals a time consuming and expensive task, I also believe they are ineffective in the present work culture of organizations.
&#62;
&#62; I would like to hear from you the better ways to get the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>What is a bigger problem: Managing employee appraisals or writing accurate appraisals?</title>
		<link>http://www.empxtrack.com/blog/12/solution-problem-managing-employee-appraisals-writing-accurate-appraisals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.empxtrack.com/blog/12/solution-problem-managing-employee-appraisals-writing-accurate-appraisals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gireesh Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While, I was organizing a software training workshop for  a major Electric Power Distribution Corporation in New Delhi, I asked Vikram Singh, one of the participating Senior Managers,  who has a team size of 150 employees for performance review,  &#8220;What is the bigger problem when conducting employee appraisals: managing appraisals or writing [...]]]></description>
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