Not every business is filled with star employees who consistently meet or exceed the expectations placed on them. For employees who don’t fall into that category, the responsibility of helping them ...

A Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) is a tool designed to give an employee with performance deficiencies the opportunity to succeed. It may be used to address issues with meeting specific job goals ...

Do you have an underperforming employee who has been falling short of your standards recently? Have they caused a string of performance failures, such as missed deadlines, gotten poor customer ...

One of the biggest challenges of working in Human Resources can be the role that you play in employee struggles and difficulties: poor performance reviews, disciplinary action, conflicts between ...

Supervisors and managers are expected to set clear standards of acceptable work performance and use timely verbal and, as necessary, written feedback as an initial way to correct unsatisfactory work ...

A performance improvement plan, or PIP, is a formal, structured and specific plan that outlines a performance problem and steps for improvement. As a company leader, you can use a PIP to develop an ...

I worked at an edtech company and was put on a performance improvement plan after making mistakes. I changed my workflow by creating spreadsheets and volunteering for more tasks. I survived the PIP, ...

Johnny C. Taylor Jr., a human-resources expert, is tackling your questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's ...