Employee Ranking Systems

By na - A must read for anyone interested in how the ranking of employees, and rank and yank affects companies over the longer haul. These comments were written by an Amazon Top 10 reviewer in extolling Dick Grote’s new book, Forced Ranking: Making Performance Management Work. What’s striking about the reviewer’s comments is that he or she apparently sees no connection between forced ranking.................. and Enron’s implosion! Was any of the chicanery that occurred at Enron directly attributable to a work culture that endorsed pugilistic contests and organizational Darwinism at all costs? (Added: 27-Jun-2006 Hits: 691 )

By Robert Bacal - Short explanation of what employee ranking involves. (Added: 12-Oct-2006 Hits: 989 )

By Robert Bacal - Quick explanation of what is called rank and yank as a method of evaluating, and firing the worst performing employees, and popularized by Jack Welch (Added: 12-Oct-2006 Hits: 750 )

By Robert Bacal - Rank and yank can seem to work, but the Jack Welch syndrome accounts for why some companies that claim success based on rank and yank have made a number of logical errors and drawn false conclusions. (Added: 12-Oct-2006 Hits: 599 )