Articles tagged 'Forced ranking'

Is This The Final Straw for Forced Ranking of Employee Performance?

by Howard Risher on Jul 10, 2012, 6:55 AM | 2 Comments

This one cannot be blamed on HR but on a current August 2012 Vanity Fair article – How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo – that argues that the performance appraisal practice known as “stack ranking” or forced distribution “effectively crippled Microsoft’s ability to innovate.”

According to the author, Kurt Eichenwald,

Every current and former Microsoft employee I interviewed — every one — cited stack ranking as the most destructive process inside of Microsoft, something that drove out untold numbers of employees … It leads to employees focusing on competing with each other rather than competing with other companies.” Read more…

Talent Management

Forced Ranking: Good Management, or Just a Flawed and Arbitrary System?

by John Hollon on Feb 1, 2012, 9:37 AM | 5 Comments

Former GE CEO Jack Welch, a man who appreciated HR. From the HR blog at TLNT.

It’s not good to pull me into the debate over “forced ranking” performance appraisal system, known more commonly as “rank-and-yank.”

And here’s why: because it’s an arbitrary, formula-heavy performance system that’s obsessed with cutting people down instead of helping to build them up. Plus, it’s the brainchild of Jack Welch — and few executives today can execute it like Neutron Jack did.

The Wall Street Journal just published another article about the pros and cons of the system, and in case you don’t know exactly what forced ranking is, here’s how The Journal described it: Read more…

Benefits, HR News & Trends

Survey: As Pay-For-Performance Goes Up, Forced Ranking Is Going Down

by Lance Haun on Nov 8, 2011, 8:20 AM | 1 comment

If you like cash money but not necessarily being forced ranked to get it, there’s some good news for you in the latest i4cp report on performance pay practices.

The survey shows that the use of pay-for-performance in salary increases and annual bonuses has increased 17 points in the last two years to 90 percent among organizations.

The use of forced ranking and distribution models in performance management has gone the opposite way. Both have had their usage drop to under 10 percent of organizations.

Let’s take a closer look at these numbers and some of the other results from the survey.

Who Is the Greatest HR Leader Ever?

by John Hollon on May 26, 2011, 11:45 AM | 2 Comments

Editor’s Note: Dr. John Sullivan has been a provocateur and strategist in the field of human resources and talent management for over 30 years. His specialty is HR strategy and designing world class HR systems and tools for Fortune 200 firms, and he’s never been shy about telling it like it is.

That’s why TLNT asked him to share his thinking in a video series titled “$#*!@ Dr. John Sullivan Says!” Look for these videos twice a week here at TLNT.

Today’s topic: Why Jack Welch matters

‘Who’s the best HR person you ever met?” Dr. John Sullivan wonders? His answer (and it’s likely to be controversial) — Jack Welch.

“(He) was the CEO of GE (General Electric) and he wasn’t an HR person,” Dr. John says. “That wasn’t his job. But if you look at what he did and how he did it, it’s the model we all ought to follow.” Read more…