No, a PIP is about creating a culture of fear, so that management can PIP anybody with no or manufactured reasons, and control workforce with loss of job. And

No, a PIP is about creating a culture of fear, so that management can PIP anybody with no or manufactured reasons, and control workforce with loss of job. And it has the double advantage of 'id you leave under PIP, you lose a bunch of money'. It's 100% about culture of fear and control.