This excerpt was originally sourced from Associations Now here and was written by Katie Bascuas. 

Take a look at a couple of companies that are getting rid of performance reviews and rewarding hackers who can identify security concerns and how these ideas could prove fruitful for associations.

Whether it’s membership, online learning, or marketing, associations can take a cue from for-profit organizations in any number of areas.

While they may not have the same staff resources or budgets as for-profits, associations can still match up in dexterity and capability. Here are a couple of recent examples of corporate ingenuity that might spark ideas for associations:

Wave goodbye to annual performance reviews and rankings. Last month, consulting firm Accenture announced it will be eliminating yearly reviews and employee rankings beginning in September.

Why? According to Accenture, the amount of time and resources that were being spent on the reviews wasn’t yielding the desired goal: to boost employee performance.

“The process is too heavy, too costly for the outcome,” the company’s CEO, Pierre Nanterme, told The Washington Post. “And the outcome is not great.”

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