[printhead]

IIRC, my employer at the time had a corporate See You Next Tuesday CEO named Carly. One of her main contributions to the corporate world was to introduce “forced ranking” into the performance review process. Because of that six sigma distribution within the bell curve there would always be a 10% band of poor performers. Eliminate them. Redraw the curve and now the next 10% reduction is justified.

People get rich for coming up with stuff like that.

[SaveFerris]

[Because of that six sigma distribution within the bell curve there would always be a 10% band of poor performers. Eliminate them. Redraw the curve and now the next 10% reduction is justified.]

[GingisK]

The bell curve will eventually change shape.

[RonEB]

Forced ranking totally destroys morale

[Hardastarboard]

That was the Jack Welsh method at GE. I always HATED that approach. I would never work for a company that was that cruel, or stupid enough to admit that their hiring practices were so bad that they failed by ten percent every year.

[grey_whiskers]

Carly was the See You Next Tuesday who said, “No American has a right to a job.”

Meaning, she gets to shaft her own countrymen by hiring cheap foreigners and pocketing the difference.

[AppyPappy]

Until they lay off the one developer in charge of Payroll.