Reimagine : Performance Review

I was just reading one of the article on performance reviews. It just came to my mind about not having a system of performance review in the organizations. It gives rise to some or the other problem. I just tried to make an attempt to put my thoughts in some lines.

Imagine there’s no performance reviews,
It is not that much difficult,
No need to report,
Imagine all the people,
Living for today...

No meeting to call for,
And policies too,
Above us not a guy,
Below us no one to threaten,
Imagine no self evaluation,
I wonder if you can,
Imagine all the people,
Living life in peace...

No need to greed or sandbagging,
No need to walk off the limit,
A brotherhood of man,
Everywhere in this world,
Imagine all the people,
Living happily...

You may say I am a Day-dreamer,
But I really dont care,
Because I am not the only one,
One day the world will be
The same as we want it to be,
I imagine all the people,
Living together forever...

Opaque Pay

Women has always been suppressed by men. And this is being implemented in Corporate World also, and it is only because of that the concept of GLASS-CEILING and UNDERPAYMENT has came into existence. Women are paid lesser than men.

But Hello!!! It is 2009. All those who practice underpayment have to stop it. In real sense, the issue is not about pay, it is all about people's perception of their self-worth. You can't get compensation right, until your Performance Management System is right. Pay for Performance seems a really useless word in that case.

So, Stop Pay Discrimination, and start believing that Pay for Performance works.

2008 HRM Award Winners

Great Eastern Award for Employer of Choice
WINNER – Hewlett-Packard

Hudson Award for Champion of HR
WINNER - Kenneth Chan, Managing Director, McDonald's Restaurants

Robert Walters Award for Best HR Leader
Winner - Caroline Lim, Global Head of HR & Global Affairs, PSA

Michael Page Award for Best HR Manager
WINNER - Evelyn Ng, HR Manager, IKEA/IKANO

Award for Best HR Young Gun
WINNER - · Debbie Tham, Assistant HR Manager, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore

Aviva Award for Best HR Team
WINNER - · Shell Eastern Petroleum

Excellence Healthcare Award for Best Health & Safety
Winner - Singapore Police Force

Drake International Award for Best Use of Technology
WINNER - Hewlett-Packard

Academee Award for Best Change Management Practices
WINNER - Shell Eastern Petroleum

HRnet Performance Consulting Award for Best Performance Management
WINNER: Singapore Police Force

JobsFactory Award for Best Graduate Development Practices
WINNER · Shell Eastern Petroleum

Grass Roots Asia Pacific Award for Best Reward & Recognition Strategies
WINNER · Credit Suisse

OmniTouch Award for Best Mature Workforce Practices
WINNER : Changi General Hospital

Talent2 Award for Best Employer Branding
WINNER: Hewlett-Packard

Clayton Ford Recruitment Award for Best Business Continuity Practices
WINNER - SMRT Corporation

Kelly Services Award for Innovation in Recruitment
WINNER · McDonald's Restaurants

Fair Employment Practices
WINNER: IBM Singapore

Adecco Award for Best Talent Development Strategy
WINNER · Hewlett-Packard

Marketing Institute of Singapore Award for Best Training, Learning & Development
WINNER - Chartered Semiconductor

Award for Best Retention Strategies
WINNER: Hewlett-Packard

ACE Insurance Award for Best Work-Life Harmony
WINNER - Apex-Pal International

Personnel Decisions International Award for Best Leadership Development
WINNER: Singapore Police Force

Frasers Hospitality Award for Best Corporate & Employee Citizenship
WINNER – Standard Chartered Bank

Bintan Resorts Award for Outstanding Contributions to HR
WINNER - Low Peck Kem - Director or People Matters Department, Ministry of Manpower

Know your True Self

One fish said to the other: “Do you believe in this ocean that they talk about?”

This ancient Chinese saying well illustrates how narrow our vision of the world and the universe can be. We all see the world form our limited perceptual framework. Whether it be an African, Asian, or an American, we all perceive through the senses we have. From our knowledge of science, we know so many things are just not what they appear — earth is not flat, the ground below us is not stationery and the sun doesn’t rise in the east.

The fact is that we see and hear what we can and not what the reality is. The world is like an unprocessed data, which is yet to be interpreted by us. In other words we can say that the unrevealed reality is just like an FLIP BOOK (which Ishaan made in Taaren Zameen Par), and what we are interpreting is just a single page of that flip book which is of no true meaning. We cannot interpret the whole reality until and unless we start perceiving things beyond that is visible to us.

And the factor which is surely acting as a barrier in our interpretation is our THOUGHT and EMOTION. We are very far from the reality because we are more conscious about the external environment, and we have lost connection with our true self. Well, an attempt to interpret the reality will not change the reality itself, but it will help us live with great joy and happiness.

KNOW YOUR TRUE SELF, OTHERWISE YOU WILL LOSE YOUR IDENTITY

Don’t Say It Unless You Mean It

It is very common these days that people are telling something and doing something else. I have a small suggestion for all the organisations, who are bragging a lot.

* Don’t say pay-for-performance if you really use the Peanutbutter Process.
* Don’t say teamwork and then allow gossip and backstabbing.
* Don’t say transparency and then only communicate to selected managers.
* Don’t say learning environment and confuse it with a few crappy training classes.
* Don’t say employee engagement when you really want compliance....


"Words once said, never comes back"

So, better say what you do, and do what you say.

H.P. Redefined

I had a talk with one of my friend today. His uncle is a HR manager in some company(I really don't know the name of the company). My friend told me about his uncle that he is a high performer in his company. The same moment I asked him, what really a high performer is? He replied, what all a normal person cannot imagine, a high performer can imagine.

Performance is not all about imagination. Well, high performers are not the ones who can imagine what others cannot, instead they are people who - LIVE IT, NOT IMAGINE IT. As a HR manager your job should be to get out to the workplace and talk to people, not just hanging out in your office. Great HR is not theoretical, it is experiential. I would like to strengthen my point by some line.


"The only people for me are the mad ones,
the ones who are mad to live,
mad to talk, mad to be saved,
desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or
say a commonplace thing,
but burn, burn, burn,
like fabulous yellow roman candles
exploding like spiders across the stars
and in the middle you see the
blue centerlight pop and
everybody goes “Awww!”
Jack Kerouac, On The Road, 1957



Be a HIGH PERFORMER in true sense

Valentine's Day

Are you alone on this Valentine's Day? I was just watching videos on youtube, and just came through this video. This is what all the singles should try for enjoying the V-DAY.