{"id":4748,"date":"2017-11-20T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/transparency-in-hr-stop-hiding-these-3-things-part-1\/"},"modified":"2017-11-20T08:01:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T08:01:46","slug":"transparency-in-hr-stop-hiding-these-3-things-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/en\/transparency-in-hr-stop-hiding-these-3-things-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Transparency in HR: Stop hiding these 3 things (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='full_slider_1'  class='avia-fullwidth-slider main_color avia-shadow   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first   container_wrap sidebar_right'  ><div  class='avia-slideshow av-av_slideshow_full-32de997090c749a8c82b86d1ff824dd4 avia-slideshow-featured av_slideshow_full avia-slide-slider av-slideshow-ui av-control-default av-slideshow-manual av-loop-once av-loop-manual-endless av-default-height-applied   avia-slideshow-1' data-slideshow-options=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;slide&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:false,&quot;loop_autoplay&quot;:&quot;once&quot;,&quot;interval&quot;:5,&quot;loop_manual&quot;:&quot;manual-endless&quot;,&quot;autoplay_stopper&quot;:false,&quot;noNavigation&quot;:false,&quot;bg_slider&quot;:false,&quot;keep_padding&quot;:false,&quot;hoverpause&quot;:false,&quot;show_slide_delay&quot;:0}\"  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 30.357142857143%;'><li  class='avia-slideshow-slide av-av_slideshow_full-32de997090c749a8c82b86d1ff824dd4__0  av-single-slide slide-1 slide-odd'><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3365 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-3365\"  src=\"https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pixma-inc..png\" width=\"1400\" height=\"425\" title='pixma inc.' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pixma-inc..png 1400w, https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pixma-inc.-450x137.png 450w, https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pixma-inc.-300x91.png 300w, https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pixma-inc.-768x233.png 768w, https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pixma-inc.-1030x313.png 1030w, https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pixma-inc.-705x214.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div id='after_full_slider_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-4748'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-ed0054f47ba5986b6e674046a3f2b6c3'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2><strong>1. Secret talent reviews and performance ratings<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3367\" src=\"http:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pixma-inc.-3-1030x313.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1030\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pixma-inc.-3-1030x313.png 1030w, https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pixma-inc.-3-450x137.png 450w, https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pixma-inc.-3-300x91.png 300w, https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pixma-inc.-3-768x233.png 768w, https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pixma-inc.-3-705x214.png 705w, https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pixma-inc.-3.png 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At one of my previous jobs, I was one of the talents in the company. However, I wasn\u2019t aware of this until I mentioned to my colleague a meeting with the top management that I was informed about by mail. She was quite surprised that she didn\u2019t get the notice. I had no idea this meeting was for \u201ctalents\u201d only.<strong> Actually nobody had informed me\u00a0<\/strong>that I was one of the talents. And obviously, the other \u201cnon-talents\u201d were not informed about having such in the company as well.<\/p>\n<p>I felt horrible and guilty for mentioning the meeting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3368 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MW-EU211_secret_20160818122515_ZH-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MW-EU211_secret_20160818122515_ZH-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MW-EU211_secret_20160818122515_ZH-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MW-EU211_secret_20160818122515_ZH-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MW-EU211_secret_20160818122515_ZH-705x397.jpg 705w, https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MW-EU211_secret_20160818122515_ZH.jpg 890w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For sure it was not a pleasure for mypeer to find out from me about this.<\/p>\n<p>I realized <strong>a part of my company\u2019s culture<\/strong> is to <strong>keep silent about being a talent and what talents do<\/strong>. Because it would make the others feel uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The truth was I felt no less uncomfortable than the others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Young talents have different perceptions now. They expect transparency from the HR and the management.<strong> We need to set examples. <\/strong>Newcomers love role-models, it gives them an idea of the strengths they need to get there. I had such a role-model at my first job, it was a lady with so-called \u2018extraordinary performance\u201d (and this was not kept secret) who became the youngest partner in our company. I admired her work and motivation, I still follow and learn from her.<\/p>\n<p>In this way, transparent performance reviews can be seen more as motivation rather than discouragement by the employees. As strange as it may sound, I consider<strong> transparency key for the feeling of job safety<\/strong>. The truth is they will <strong>feel more threatened if they are not clear<\/strong> about their performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>The main advantages of transparency in talent and performance reviews are:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><u>Norms<\/u> <\/strong>are set &#8211; By showing your employees which behaviors are driving results, you set the norms for what they should strive for.<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Peer pressure<\/u><\/strong> is actually a motivation, especially for young people. They are the <strong>cooperation <\/strong>not the competition generation. You can see how great results achieved by one motivate the others and lead to<strong> sharing of best practices among the talents.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Friendly working environment <\/u><\/strong>is much more likely to be established if there are no &#8216;dirty&#8217; secrets between the employees, &#8216;dirty&#8217; meaning things they don&#8217;t usually discuss such as their reviews, ratings or talent meetings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<div  class='av-buildercomment av-av_comments_list-88ce68e426f11248fa394058a3de040f'><\/div>\n<div  class='av-social-sharing-box av-av_social_share-87f25dfd3254130c239cd2d044c49239 av-social-sharing-box-default  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_comments_list  avia-builder-el-last  av-social-sharing-box-fullwidth'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47],"tags":[51,52],"class_list":["post-4748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employer-branding","category-hr","tag-employer-branding","tag-hr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tothetopinternational.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}