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Can you explain this a little more? How do you think cutting bottom 10% performers affected GE as a company?
by tinuviel 9y ago
Can you explain this a little more? How do you think cutting bottom 10% performers affected GE as a company?
- smacktoward 9y agoThere is by now a large literature on the destructive effects of Welch-style "rank and yank" management (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve#Consequences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve#Consequences). Since whoever comes out on the bottom of the evaluation list will be fired, for instance, employees are incentivized to sabotage each others' work to make sure that it's someone else left without a chair when the music stops; and managers are incentivized to deliberately hire underqualified people to fill open positions, so they can protect their good workers by having a designated loser to throw to the wolves when evaluation time comes.
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- yuhong 9y agoI am not even talking about the problem with the practice itself. I am talking about the culture that caused the practice in the first place.