Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. William Arruda covers personal branding, leadership, and careers. When an employee isn't meeting job standards or goals, you might ...

Do you have an underperforming employee who has been falling short of your standards recently? Have they caused a string of performance failures, such as missed deadlines, gotten poor customer ...

Workers who were put on performance-improvement plans described how it affected them. One ex-Google employee said he knew he wouldn't be able to ride out the PIP. A former Amazon employee said they ...

A Performance Improvement Plan (“PIP”) is a long-standing HR tool for managing underperforming employees. Employers often use a PIP to document deficiencies and outline specific goals the ...

References don’t have to be your direct manager. Strong references can come from a skip-level leader, a project lead or ...

The short answer is probably not. Performance improvement plans or PIPs are an effective tool to document an employee’s work issues, establishing constructive goals over a set time frame. Ideally, the ...