It was not a "team" or "project". This company operated on Toyota's model of dual manager (or it's variant). One for the project and one overall. The overall ma

It was not a "team" or "project". This company operated on Toyota's model of dual manager (or it's variant). One for the project and one overall. The overall manager oversaw a a fixed number of people (around 200-250) and he could rank few of them the lowest. He is not obliged to and many managers never gave the lowest score to anyone. Also this manager would get the feedback from all the teams his reports worked for and make his own decision. Quite often he would even ask the employee why his project manager rated him low. Overall from what I had seen the process worked not too shabby even though it was unfair.