After attending general counsel conferences and reading legal department surveys, one clear message is that the legal department must accomplish more with a smaller budget and fewer resources. This is ...

A Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) is a tool designed to give an employee with performance deficiencies the opportunity to succeed. It may be used to address issues with meeting specific job goals ...

In many organizations, human-resources staff assists supervisors and managers with writing performance-action plans. Performance-action plans -- sometimes referred to as performance-improvement plans, ...