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That doesn't sound very similar to decimation. Stack ranking is picking and punishing the worst team members based on some system. Decimation was purely random.
by CobrastanJorji 9y ago
That doesn't sound very similar to decimation. Stack ranking is picking and punishing the worst team members based on some system. Decimation was purely random.
Decimation was a system for BUILDING cohesion. You don't flee battle because you might be decimated. You don't let your comrades flee battle because you might be decimated. It's for when you want to severely punish a collective group of people but can't afford to hurt them all.
Stack ranking is the opposite. You are actively competing against your colleagues. You are incentivized for your colleagues to fail.
- ardit33 9y agoYou missed the part that in a team of good performers, (i.e. no dead woods in the team), it ends up being a defacto "random" system.... when it comes to actual performance, and that's where politiking and favoritisms kick in. Both have the "Culture of Fear" as a central point, and yes, stack ranking has its roots on the Roman Decimation system. http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/article-details/performance-improvement-plans-and-the-culture-of-fear http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/article-details/performance-impr...