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Why would you ever want to evaluate employees by any metric not directly tied to their contribution to company success? What metric would you recommend?
by gaius 9y ago
Why would you ever want to evaluate employees by any metric not directly tied to their contribution to company success?
What metric would you recommend?
- dragonwriter 9y agoI would recommend not evaluating employees if you can't be bothered to develop and validate a meaningful metric, since doing so with a bad metric is actively harmful (even aside from potential liability issues if it adversely impacts a protected class without demonstrable validity.) This isn't, by the way, an original concept; the dangers of the inappropriate use of micro-level metrics that aren't tied to business outcomes in decision-making (and the individual employee level is about as micro as you can get) was one of the key problems W. Edwards Deming identified.