Overview : You cannot manage productivity with an appraisal form. Learn to define performance as a three legged stool that ensures everything that matters is managed. Some employees perform well but poison the environment around them. Team members might resent or even undermine group efforts when one individual's bad behavior is tolerated. Others try hard but fail. Only through a holistic approach to performance can maximum productivity be achieved. Therefore, managing what individuals do everyday, tracking the results that come from their contributions, and including how they work with others are all necessary to ensure performance success. Make sure that…

As the world's population hits 7 billion, human development is being hailed as both the cause and the solution to our population crisis. Should we be celebrating the successes of development or should we be concerned about rising inequalities across the world?