An interesting variant of this system is one where executives give or take points away from organizations based upon team performance. Assume that individual r

An interesting variant of this system is one where executives give or take points away from organizations based upon team performance. Assume that individual rankings go from -2 to +2. The CEO gives each VP points according to his whim and/or how well their organization did in the quarterly objectives. A favored VP may get +20 points. An underperforming one may get -3. Now he has to assign points to his directors, who get to give points to their managers, who give points to contributors. Now the sum performance review score at each subtree has to match the allocated points. So you have fixed stacks, but they're at least relative to team performance and/or political favor. This system tends to depend on the initial allocations, so you should really get in the favored part of the organization. Throwaway so you don't know which company I'm talking about.