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Why ranking employees by performance backfires
7 Apr, 2021 01:27 AM
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Grading employees by performances creates unintended consequences. Photo / Getty Images
Financial Times
By: Sarah O’Connor When Bill Michael, the former chair of KPMG, told staff to stop moaning in a virtual meeting in February, one of the issues they were complaining about was the forced distribution model used to assess their performance. This way of appraising people is a zombie idea. No matter how many times it proves disastrous for a company s culture or morale, it refuses to die.
Generally speaking, forced distribution , or stack ranking , methods divide employees each year into a certain percentage of top performers, average performers and underperformers. In the UK s senior civil service, for example, the proportions were fixed at 25, 65 and 10 per cent respectively, until the system was reformed in 2019.
Why ranking employees by performance is a disastrous process that demoralises staff It is a zombie idea that refuses to die
about an hour ago Sarah O Connor
“We grade children in school, often as young as nine or 10, and no one calls that cruel. But somehow adults can’t take it? Explain that one to me.”
When Bill Michael, the former chair of KPMG, told staff to “stop moaning” in a virtual meeting in February, one of the issues they were complaining about was the “forced distribution” model used to assess their performance. This way of appraising people is a zombie idea. No matter how many times it proves disastrous for a company’s culture or morale, it refuses to die.
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