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Neither approach works. Engineers (management are also employees, right?) ranking management erodes management authority, and management will never stand for i
by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Neither approach works.
Engineers (management are also employees, right?) ranking management erodes management authority, and management will never stand for it.
Outside consultants are usually hired with a fixed agenda - the rotten eggs almost always get to stay.
Stack ranking is evil, period.
- mc32 2y agoIt is, but it may be periodically necessary to get rid of dead weight and extirpate those who’ve risen to their level of incompetence. I'm not advocating stack ranking for yearly review but rather a quintennial or decennial event to clean-house. In other words, a mechanism to avoid what happened to Boeing, Intel, Yahoo, and what is happening to Google and others. 360 reviews obviously allows orgs to get fat and carry bloat.
- mangamadaiyan 2y agoI agree with you on the importance and necessity of getting rid of dead weight. All I'm saying is that stack ranking might not successfully get rid of dead weight. As with any system of metrics, the people who game the system are the ones who reap benefits from the system - thereby subverting the system, and preventing it from achieving its stated goals. As systems of its kind go, stack ranking is particularly insidious and gameable. I have no idea what _would_ work, though. I have some half-baked thoughts, but will reserve them until such time as they are better than half-baked.