Golden State HR

Trashing the annual performance review! Here’s a very interesting article about a topic that a friend and colleague had with me describing Adobe’s decision to do away with the traditional annual performance review. The article suggests that the process is an administrative burden to managers and a stressful, valueless experience for the employee. The “replacement” system is regular check-ins with plenty of feedback. Funny, this is what employers should be doing to make the traditional annual process effective. Communicating goals and performance expectations, keeping an eye on what employees are doing and accomplishing, coaching to correct problems at the onset and plenty of feedback, both positive and negative are what make any performance evaluation process work well. I like eliminating the traditional system. I think stack-ranking is like muscial chairs or "voting someone off the island". To make Adobe’s new process successful requires well-trained managers to keep their vigilance and also to document performance somehow, sometime. Good read. Thanks, Michael! http://beta.slashdot.org/story/197877

Attention California Employers! Sacramento is at it again. This newly enacted law is effective July 2014, but you need to think about it now.

New CA labor law effective July 2014 needs employers' attention NOW. Recently, changes were enacted to expand the definition of “family” with respect to Paid Family Leave, which is an employee-paid disability insurance program in California. Until now, it helped r...