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Corporate policies can miss their targets. If a policy targeting the slackers existed, than part of it's job would be to target said slackers, which it would o
by cmaher 14y ago
Corporate policies can miss their targets. If a policy targeting the slackers existed, than part of it's job would be to target said slackers, which it would only be able to successfully do with some probability. However, if there isn't a statistically significant number of slackers, the policy could end up falsely targeting more hardworking employees than slackers. It's a classic probability/confusion matrix problem and goes to show that you have to be damn sure that your policy is only targeting the right people.
A company willing to risk harming its honest employees for minimal benefit is not one I would like to work for.
- DannyBee 14y agoYou seem to assume there isn't some minimum non-relative performance bar you can set for what "slacking" is, without harming hardworking employees. Also, nobody said the policy had to be completely rigid, but having no policy will become a disaster as the company grows larger, and HR actually becomes significant.
- cmaher 14y agoFair enough. But my experience tells me that large corporations + many policies = many missed targets.