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I cannot imagine any situation in which I would think "Man, I hate my job. I'd quit right now if it weren't for the enlightened way they do performance review a
by gjm11 11y ago
I cannot imagine any situation in which I would think "Man, I hate my job. I'd quit right now if it weren't for the enlightened way they do performance review and goal-setting."
Of course that's a little unfair. Maybe doing this stuff well means that employees are less likely to find themselves with nothing important to do, or something. Still, it seems like it's focusing on the wrong things.
If you want to keep good employees, surely you actually want to do things like these: Give them interesting work to do. Give them work that has actual value for the world. Pay them well. Make sure they have good tools. Give them a sense of responsibility for the company's success (which means (1) shares or options and (2) as much clarity as possible about how their work relates to the company's higher-level goals). Make sure there are opportunities for progress.
If tinkering with performance-management makes a big difference, I think that can only be because either before or after the tinkering it was catastrophically broken.
- kylebgorman 11y agoIn the science of management there is the "two-factor" theory which holds that the factors which promote job satisfaction and job dissatisfaction are essentially separate, so, that, e.g., increasing job satisfaction does not necessary decrease people's job dissatisfaction. (This jives with my experiences: a raise doesn't make me feel any better about a toxic coworker). Casting what you're saying in the same terms, "no stack ranking" is essential to head off worker dissatisfaction but it doesn't necessarily make Adobe a good place to work.
- redwood 11y agoGoogle's system was intolerable. You put yourself up for competitive promotion. Draining, rewards those who pay the optics game. Worst of all it left the great people who don't know how to play politics behind and left a lot of terrible people promoted who did
- scottmwinters 11y agoThey pretty much said it was catastrophically broken...so maybe it IS making a big difference?