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Performance Review Policy

Our Performance Review Policy outlines the standards for employee performance for review periods. It dictates how performance reviews are handled, along with a performance review form. Writing a comprehensive performance review policy from scratch can take you more hours than you can afford. We've made it easy for you to...

Tags: Performance, Performance Review, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Download resources 2008-08-22

Performance Review of COTS-Based System Architecture

Commercial, Off-The-Shelf COTS software has gained considerable popularity as an approach that quickly and economically creates software systems that address business requirements. The saved development time and money will be wasted if the performance evaluation of the system is deferred, potentially leading to performance issues in the system. To save...

Tags: System Architecture, Performance, Performance Review, COTS, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2008-06-01

Maximize Your Performance Review as an Administrative Assistant

Most of the people get just one opportunity each year to highlight the contributions in the workplace - and hopefully, to justify a salary increase. Here are some things that one can do to ensure that their manager notices the worth and receives ample documentation to support a recommended bonus,...

Tags: Testimonial, Performance, Performance Review, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2007-12-01

Conduct Effective Performance Reviews as an Administrative Assistant

Oftentimes, administrative assistants are responsible for supervising employees in today's workplace. Supervised employees can include interns, temporary workers, or full-time staff. Unfortunately, few administrative assistants get the training they need to conduct effective and productive performance appraisals for these employees. This paper gives some tips that one can use to...

Tags: Performance, Performance Review, Assistant, Performance Appraisal, Performance Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management

White papers 2007-12-01

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft Automated Employee Performance Reviews (Level 300)

The attendee of this webcast will learn from the experiences of the Microsoft IT group as they migrates the Microsoft employee review system from a largely manual, paper-based document process to a fully electronic, automated process.

Tags: Webcast, Performance, Performance Review, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet

Webcasts 2006-12-05

Performance review template: Peer feedback

When it's time to conduct an employee's annual performance review, his or her peers can be an excellent source of information and insight. This template includes a cover letter explaining the process and a survey designed to elicit useful, targeted peer comments. You can combine this input with similar...

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Performance, Performance Review, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Tools & templates 2005-05-19

Human Resources Team Helps Employees Align Commitments With Company Goals Using Office InfoPath 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007

The Microsoft Human Resources Information Technology team HRIT needed to find a better way to uniformly collect, store, and work with performance review information. This meant finding a way to take data entered in an offline form and store it in a structured manner so that it could be tied...

Tags: Team, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Performance, Performance Review, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Tool, Performance Management, Team Management, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Office Suites, Software

Case studies

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Dell Inspiron i1545-4374PBU

Editors' note: This review is part of our holiday 2009 retail desktop and laptop review roundup, covering specific fixed configurations of popular systems that can be found in retail stores. There's something to be said for simplicity. The Dell Inspiron i1545-4374PBU might not look like much and its limited supply...

Tags: Notebooks, Keyboards, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., Intel Corp.

Product reviews 2009-11-07

Pocket Performace Review for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

Pocket Performace Review for iPhone is an impartial, time-sensitive management tool that has been specifically designed to fit a wide array of management styles. It features set fixed or random outcomes that coincide with your budget, choose your manager, each with his or her own unique voice and style, with...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Style, Back Pocket Software, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-06

RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700 (T-Mobile)

Photo gallery:RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700It's been about a year since the original RIM BlackBerry Bold made its debut, and while it remains a very solid device, it's about time that a flashier, faster model took over the reigns. And that device would be the RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700. Not only...

Tags: Handhelds, BlackBerry Bold 9700, RIM BlackBerry, RIM BlackBerry Bold, RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700, Research In Motion Ltd., T-Mobile, Bold 9700

Product reviews 2009-11-05

AVADirect Nano Cube

AVADirect's $2,266 Nano Cube tries to take on Shuttle's XPC H7 5800 at its own small form factor game. Both systems come with smaller-than-normal SFF cases, and each requires sacrifices, even more than with a standard SFF PC, in exchange for its tiny dimensions. Therein lies our problem with this...

Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Games, Shuttle XPC, SFF, small form factor, Cube, Shuttle, Nano, DVD burner, PC, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., AVADirect, game

Product reviews 2009-11-04

Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Nov/Dec 09

These are consistently your most useful columnsI really look forward to these, especially since I'm thinking about building a new video editing machine. One that can handle full frame 1080 24p h.264 video. I can transcode it with cineform but unless you're doing a lot of color work, it's...

Tags: Processors, Nov/Dec 09, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Best Kit List, Hardware 2.0, CPU, hardware, Intel Corp., motherboard

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Sony Vaio X (VPC-X115KX/N Signature Collection, gold)

Sony has thus far taken a position just adjacent to Apple's when it comes to the question of Netbooks. Rather than embracing these low-cost, low-power systems that have become incredibly popular with bargain-hunting consumers, Sony stayed out of the market initially. Its subsequent entries have skirted the outer edges of...

Tags: Desktops, Sony Vaio, Vaio X, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2009-11-02

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Top Five HDTVs

Whatever the size of your wallet, every living room should have a respectable television set. Good news: HDTVs are cheaper, bigger and better than ever. Here are my top five picks for this year. Splurge: Samsung UNB8500 Series ...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, Video, 1080p, TVs, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers

This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...

Tags: Processor, Hard Drive, Performance, Apple MacBook, Memory, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Intel Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Compaq CQ61z, Timeline 1810T, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-11-01

2010 Infiniti QX56

Photo gallery:2010 Infiniti QX56Compared with sporting and agile cars such as the Infiniti G37 and FX50, the 2010 Infiniti QX56 is an odd throwback, a journey into yesteryear before the first hybrids strode the earth. Built on a truck frame, it rides like a railway car. The engine, big enough...

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Product reviews 2009-10-30

NASDAQ Portfolio Manager for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

NASDAQ Portfolio Manager for iPhone gets the real-time last sale data, stock quotes, and the latest financial information. NASDAQ Portfolio Manager for iPhone is the essential tool for tracking your favorite stocks, providing quick and easy access to real-time last sale data directly from the source. NASDAQ Portfolio Manager for...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Stock, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Investment, Smart Phones, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-28

Onkyo HT-S7200

Photo gallery:Onkyo HT-S7200"True" home theater fans may look down on home-theater-in-a-box systems, but sometimes that elitist attitude is unwarranted. The Onkyo HT-S7200 may technically be an HTIB, but that's just because it comes in a giant box; the system is composed of two separate components, the SKS-HT870 7.1 speaker package...

Tags: speaker, Onkyo HT-S7200, Onkyo, HTIB

Product reviews 2009-10-27

Soccer Star Player for iPhone 2.1 (Mobile)

Soccer Star Player for iPhone enables you to track, store and review your key player performance statistics, individual game results, season performance, and tournaments. It features tally for goals, shots, assist, take-away, moves, passes, and d-move, timers for current shift, total shifts, and half game, digital Star Player Card with...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Performance, Mobile, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-27

Basketball Star Player for iPhone 2.1 (Mobile)

Basketball Star Player for iPhone enables you to track, store and review your key player performance statistics, individual game results, season performance, and tournaments. It features tally counters for three-pointers, two-pointers, free throws, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, turnovers, and fouls, timers for court time and player game minutes, digital star...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Performance, Mobile, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-27