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I'm not sure it's that simple, especially on large systems. I've seen several cases where an employee was responsible for only a small section of a huge system
by gentleteblor 10y ago
I'm not sure it's that simple, especially on large systems. I've seen several cases where an employee was responsible for only a small section of a huge system but was actually the only one who knew how the whole thing fit together.
We (his co-workers) all knew it, we were asking him questions all day. Our manager had a vague idea he was good, but that was it.
The system doesn't always reward the best performers...it doesn't even know who they are (that's why performance management is a multi-billion dollar industry).
- lawpoop 10y ago> The system doesn't always reward the best performer Reading your comment, it brought back to mind: employee value isn't a linear scale, from "bad" to "good". What they contribute is complex.
- gentleteblor 10y agoAmen. If that isn't the truth, i don't know what is. To me, that complexity is what makes it difficult for the system to find and reward the right people. That's what make it easy for employee value to get lost in the numbers, in exhaustion, in time crunches and stack rankings.