Career Coach: A Bad Omen
Career Coach: A Bad Omen
The pitfalls of a performance improvement plan
- Publication:
- Quality Progress
- Date:
- June 2025
- Issue:
- Volume 58 Issue 6
- Pages:
- pp. 5
- Author(s):
- Whitacre, Teresa
- Organization(s):
- Marketech Systems, Pittsburgh and Charlotte, NC.
Abstract
The use of performance improvement plans (PIP) has increased 30%. PIPs wouldn’t be necessary if managers treated employees like adults, not minors that must be micromanaged. Occasionally, employees need help, but in most cases, effective communication and management fixes the problem.
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