Managerial Accountability Is Not Missing; It’s just MISPLACED

By Michelle Malay Carter on October 29, 2008 

Last week I pointed you to an article by Samuel A.?Culbert, Get Rid of the Performance Review.? I thought it was well written, but I’m not in 100% agreement with some of his proposed solutions, particularly around accountability. Culbert says, “The alternative to one-side-accountable, boss-administered/subordinate-received performance reviews is two-side, reciprocally accountable, performance previews.” Performance Previews […]

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Three Organization Design Principles – Why Engagement Sits at about 20 Percent

By Michelle Malay Carter on May 28, 2008 

Organizational Engineering At PeopleFit, we consider ourselves organizational engineers.? Meaning, we use scientific knowledge and natural laws in order to design and implement structures, systems, and processes that realize a desired objective and meet specified criteria – i.e. we design requisite leadership systems which produce work enabling organizations rooted in trust, fairness, and accountability. It’s […]

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