RE: How to combat ordinal ranking of employees

["John Borio" <jborio@fiberguide.com>]

Ranking, I understanding and have experienced Ranking as follows:
The manager has ten workers reporting to her, she is obliged to rank them in
order of their subjective performance.  The best person receives the number
one slot,  second best person number two and so on.

Robert Bacal described ranking as: "A ranking system evaluates employees
based on whether they are better, equal or worse than their peers."

The ranking usually is included in the annual performance review and further
connected to a pay for performance scheme.    I have even "heard" that some
executives even go as far as to threaten the lower, let's say, 10% with
dismissal, no bonus, pay raise or some other form of punishment.

Ranking mutual funds may work, but people... a management technique that
helps pit team members against each other.

John Borio
Quality Director
Fiberguide Industries
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