It might sound obvious, but it’s worth stating: Every time you evaluate something, you’re comparing it to something else. Sometimes, that comparison is overt—a product that is being sold for 25% off ...

Expecting an employee to perform job duties at a satisfactory level or above requires management to convey the standards of the position. Clearly stating your expectations, verbally and in writing, ...

Does being an honors student mean you’ll be a great employee? New research suggests maybe, but that’s not the only factor that matters. In a soon-to-publish article in the Journal of Applied ...

Laci is the Global Senior HR Analyst at XpertHR, a division of LexisNexis Risk Solutions. Under today’s pay equity spotlight, companies need to answer a lot of questions. How does the HR department ...

Meta may plan for annual performance-based job cuts to boost employee performance. The strategy aims to increase "non-regrettable attrition" and remove the lowest performers. Affected employees will ...

“The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people,” Bill Gates once said in an interview. “There is no way of getting around that in terms of IQ, you’ve got to be very elitist in ...

The retail industry demands high performance from its workers to achieve revenue goals throughout the fiscal year. The job performance of a retail employee depends on specific strengths important to ...

Imagine you're a seasoned chef, tasked with judging a cooking competition. But instead of tasting the dishes, you're only allowed to interview the contestants about their recipes. Sounds absurd, right ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ views of artificial intelligence and its uses in workplace hiring and monitoring. For this analysis, we surveyed 11,004 U.S. adults ...

The only major personality trait that consistently leads to success is conscientiousness. "It's emerging as one of the primary dimensions of successful functioning across the lifespan," Paul Tough ...