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- Glossary· Periodic talent + succession discussionTerm
Talent review
…n, and development plans. Distinct from performance review.
- Glossary· Multi-source feedbackTerm
360 review
Multi-source feedback
- Glossary· Always-on feedbackTerm
Continuous performance
Always-on feedback
- Glossary· Telling candidates why they didn't get itTerm
Rejection feedback
…specific feedback about their interview performance. Rare, brand-positive, legal-risk-managed by sticking to job-related observatio…
- Glossary· How performance is set, reviewed, rewardedTerm
Performance management
How performance is set, reviewed, rewarded
- Glossary· Employee-written performance assessmentTerm
Self-review
Employee-written performance assessment
- Glossary· Situation – Behavior – ImpactTerm
SBI feedback
…er for Creative Leadership's structured feedback model. Name the situation, describe the observable behavior, share the impact.…
- Glossary· Inflated ratingsTerm
Leniency bias
…d. The single most common rater bias in performance reviews; calibration sessions exist largely to counter it.
- Glossary· Stated behavioural anchorsTerm
Core values
…Useful only when used in hiring loops, performance reviews, and termination decisions — otherwise wall art.
- Glossary· Cross-team reviewTerm
Calibration
Cross-team review
- Glossary· Performance × Potential gridTerm
9-box
Performance × Potential grid
- Glossary· Cross-team rating reviewTerm
Calibration committee
Cross-team rating review
- Glossary· Crowdsourced employer-review siteTerm
Glassdoor
Crowdsourced employer-review site
- Glossary· Incident review focused on system, not personTerm
Blameless postmortem
Incident review focused on system, not person
- Glossary· Annual pay-and-promotion reviewTerm
Merit cycle
…tions across the workforce. Anchored by performance, market data, budget, and pay-equity controls.
- Glossary· Right to human review of automated decisionsTerm
GDPR Article 22
…ng — directly relevant to AI hiring and performance tools.
- Glossary· Performance Improvement PlanTerm
PIP
Performance Improvement Plan
- Glossary· Cross-functional offer decisionTerm
Hiring committee
…istinct from the interview panel — that reviews interview feedback and makes the hire/no-hire decision. Standard at Google; re…
- Glossary· Tools and training for managersTerm
Manager enablement
…managers effective at hiring, feedback, performance, and growth conversations.
- Glossary· Color-coded comparison viewTerm
Heatmap
…ltiple metrics, color-coded by relative performance. The default lens for survey result review.
- Glossary· Mandatory employer-worker pay reviewTerm
Joint pay assessment
Mandatory employer-worker pay review
- Glossary· Performance-based deal paymentTerm
Earnout
Performance-based deal payment
- Glossary· Performance-tied cashTerm
Variable pay
Performance-tied cash
- Glossary· Performance × potential gridTerm
Nine-box
Performance × potential grid
- Glossary· Min / mid / max for a levelTerm
Compensation band
…ed). Bands enable consistent offers and reviews.
- Glossary· Learning ratioTerm
70-20-10
…70% from on-the-job, 20% from coaching/feedback, 10% from formal training. A useful budgeting heuristic.
- Glossary· How you decide payTerm
Compensation philosophy
…transparency, location, equity mix, and review cadence.
- Glossary· Same role, same payTerm
Pay equity audit
A statistical review of pay differences for similar roles, controlling for level and tenure, to find…
- Glossary· Who could step upTerm
Succession planning
A regular review of who would cover or replace key roles, and what gaps exist in the bench.
- Glossary· Learning over blameTerm
Blameless post-mortem
An incident review that assumes engineers acted reasonably given what they knew at the time. Focus…
- Glossary· Layered defensesTerm
Swiss Cheese Model
…multiple defensive layers (monitoring, review, automation, runbooks) momentarily align. Frames why one human action is never…
- Glossary· Pay vs. band midpointTerm
Compa-ratio
…above. The core metric in compensation reviews.
- Glossary· Min/mid/max for a levelTerm
Pay band
…graphy. Bands enable consistent offers, reviews, and pay-equity audits.
- Glossary· Backups for key rolesTerm
Bench depth
…ndidates who could step into key roles. Reviewed in succession-planning sessions.
- Glossary· Official employee recordTerm
Personnel file
…gal record of employment: offer letter, reviews, disciplinary records, role changes, separation. Increasingly subject to emplo…
- Glossary· Evidence bundle for advancementTerm
Promotion packet
…pact, behaviors against the next level. Reviewed in calibration. Forces rigor and reduces favoritism.
- Glossary· Depth of ready-now successorsTerm
Bench strength
…through succession planning and talent reviews.
- Glossary· Subordinate-reported manager qualityTerm
Manager effectiveness score
…ems about a manager's clarity, support, feedback, and development. Used in promotion, calibration, and intervention decisions.
- Glossary· Agreement between independent ratersTerm
Inter-rater reliability
…consistently different interviewers or reviewers score the same input. Low IRR means your rubric is noise; the fix is calibra…
- Glossary· Glassdoor sentiment metricTerm
CEO approval rating
The share of reviewers who approve of the CEO. Highly visible to candidates; trend matters more tha…
- Glossary· Loyalty mistaken for performanceTerm
Tenure inertia
Loyalty mistaken for performance
- Glossary· HR Business PartnerTerm
HRBP
…advising leaders on org design, hiring, performance, and people risk.
- Glossary· Different intentTerm
OKR vs KPI
…nal and time-bound; KPIs are continuous performance indicators of a steady-state process. Most teams need both.
- Glossary· Attract → alumniTerm
Employee lifecycle
…hrough hiring, onboarding, development, performance, retention, exit, and alumni.
- Glossary· Data about people decisionsTerm
People analytics
Using data to inform hiring, performance, retention, and org design. Most teams should start with 10–12 clean metrics, n…
- Glossary· Human Capital ManagementTerm
HCM
…oader category than HRIS — adds talent, performance, learning, and sometimes payroll modules. Examples: Workday HCM, Oracle HCM, SA…
- Glossary· 5 dimensions of dev productivityTerm
SPACE framework
Satisfaction, Performance, Activity, Communication, Efficiency. Published by Forsgren, Storey, Maddila, Z…
- Glossary· Speak up without fearTerm
Psychological safety
…The strongest single predictor of team performance in Google's Project Aristotle.
- Glossary· Did the hire work outTerm
Quality of hire
Composite metric blending first-year performance rating, 1-year retention, and manager satisfaction. The hiring metric that actu…
- Glossary· HR data warehouseTerm
People mart
…s downstream of HRIS, ATS, payroll, and performance systems.
- Glossary· Legal grounds to terminateTerm
Just cause
…ation must be justified with documented performance or conduct grounds.
- Glossary· Reduction in ForceTerm
RIF
…driven by business need (not individual performance). Subject to disparate-impact analysis on the selection criteria and, in many j…
- Glossary· Return on training spendTerm
ROI of L&D
…el 5 (financial ROI). Requires baseline performance, post-training measurement, and isolation of training's contribution.
- Glossary· Rehired former employeeTerm
Boomerang
…aster than an external hire, with known performance and culture fit. Worth a deliberate program, not just ad-hoc.
- Glossary· Did this hire work out?Term
Quality of hire
…composite measure combining first-year performance ratings, 90-day retention, and hiring-manager satisfaction. The hardest hiring…
- Glossary· Rating × position-in-band gridTerm
Merit matrix
A guideline grid that maps performance rating and compa-ratio to recommended raise percentage. Drives consistency and…
- Glossary· Levels × expectations matrixTerm
Career framework
…er level, per track. Anchors promotion, performance, and hiring decisions in one shared language.
- Glossary· Models that forecast people outcomesTerm
Predictive people analytics
…dicting attrition risk, hiring success, performance, or engagement. Powerful, but governance-heavy under GDPR and AI-act regimes.
- Glossary· Stack-rank with mandated distributionTerm
Forced ranking
Performance system requiring a fixed distribution of ratings (e.g., 20/70/10). Pioneered at…
- Glossary· EU AI Act classificationTerm
High-risk AI system
…the EU AI Act, systems used in hiring, performance, or termination decisions are classified high-risk and subject to conformity, t…
- Glossary· Cumulative tiredness from shift patternsTerm
Shift fatigue
Performance and safety decline caused by long, rotating, or night shifts. Managed through s…
- Glossary· Documentation of an AI modelTerm
Model card
…AI model's intended use, training data, performance across subgroups, limitations, and ethical considerations. Standard ask in AI v…