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Rank-and-Fire Management Isn't So Hot After All
Rank-and-Fire Management Isn't So Hot After AllDuh!!It is fortunate that the subject of the article links "rank-and-fire" with "management" because there is very little logic to link "rank-and-fire" to anything but insensitive management. It would have been much more interesting to have looked into whether "leadership" has any correlation with...
Tags: forced ranking, Rank-and-Fire Management
Discussion threads 2007-04-05
What Is Forced Ranking?
What Is Forced Ranking?Asians are not ready yetAsian managers used emotional judgement and are not factual even in forced rankings.This is my 13+ years experience.How to loose singular brainsIt is part of the human behavior the trend to value as positive those people who agree with us. With this attitude,...
Tags: Forced Ranking, KPI, leader, Steve Scullen
Discussion threads 2007-03-27
What Is Forced Ranking?
Forced ranking is a controversial workforce management tool that uses intense yearly evaluations to identify a company's best and worst performing employees. Why It Matters Now Although most large organizations refuse to publicly discuss or even confirm whether they're using some form of forced ranking, as many as...
Tags: BNET Briefing, Employee, General Electric Co., Worker, Dick Grote, Jack Welch, Forced Ranking, Performance Management, Human Resources, Forced Distribution, Management, Jennifer Alsever, Termination, Workplace, Performance, Workforce Management
Articles 2007-03-20
How To Find, Fix Or Fire Your Poor Performers
From the executive summary: ‘In recent years, many companies have instituted the concept of forced ranking, a tough-minded approach that obligates managers to rank their staffers against one another. The bottom-dwellers typically are pushed out or encouraged to leave'. Forced ranking depletes employee morale, eliminates cooperation, and can result in...
Tags: International Data Group, Forced Ranking
White papers 2003-11-01
The NFL's Smartest Business Team
The savvy business formula that make NFL's most successful team its best-run business. Maximized Revenue Stream According to the league’s business model, all 32 teams share...
Tags: Team, Player, NFL, Patriots, Team Management, Management, National Football League, New England Patriots, Business of Football, Forced Ranking, Succession Planning, Revenue, Jennifer Alsever
Articles 2008-12-19

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What Is Forced Ranking?
Forced ranking is a controversial workforce management tool that uses intense yearly evaluations to identify a company's best and worst performing employees.
Tags: performance, workplace, termination, forced ranking, forced distribution, General Electric, Jack Welch, Dick Grote, /^hWhat, management, Performance management, worker
Articles 2007-03-20
Forced Ranking: A Good Thing For Business?
From the executive summary: ‘Today's business environment and the shortcomings of existing processes are prompting companies to rethink performance management. Now more than ever, it is critical to identify the top performers and distinguish them from the under-performers. Hence, many are revisiting an old tool: forced ranking.' The paper examines...
Tags: Crain Communications Inc., Productivity, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Rank-and-Fire Management Isn't So Hot After All
Jack Welch is famous for implementing GE's brutal performance evaluation, where employees are ranked against each other and the bottom 10 percent of the list gets booted every year. Such "forced ranking" systems have long been controversial, with experts divided on if they are truly effective. New research from the...
Tags: University Of Michigan, Employee, Performance Management, Jack Welch, Team Management, Web Site Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Internet, Andrew Hines
Blog posts 2007-03-28
What's To Be Done About Performance Reviews?
The topic of performance reviews triggers a wide range of complex responses. Forced ranking as one technique for quantifying performance appraisal received mixed reviews. "Forced ranking is injecting fear into the workplace." "Ranking & must be handled delicately &. Organizations must first improve their performance culture or else they will...
Tags: Harvard College, Performance, Performance Review, Performance Management, Performance Appraisal, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2006-11-27
Dead Man's Curve
‘Forced Ranking' refers to a workforce-management tool that calls for identification of the best and worst performers in an organization. This enables the organization to devise suitable strategies for nurturing the former and rehabilitating or discarding the latter. In today's intensely competitive business era, Forced Ranking serves as an effective...
Tags: Crain Communications Inc., Tool, Productivity
White papers 2003-07-01
The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa., Business Management Column.
By Judy Olian, Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 20--STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- In the face of mounting legal challenges, Goodyear recently abandoned its "forced ranking" performance review system. What kind of system is that?...
Tags: Ford Motor Co., General Electric Co., performance
Research articles 2002-10-20
How To Find
Article focuses on a process used by companies to find, fix, or fire their poor performers. Bad employees drain the IT organization and the company. Forced ranking can help one to get tough-but at what cost? This paper gives the details on the topics like
Tags: Cyber M@rketing Services, Strategy, Management
White papers 2003-11-01
Learning to Say You're Fired
One chronic underperformer can hold back an entire team. Here's how to let someone go with professionalism—and compassion.Is one of your workers holding back the rest of your team? If you've given them plenty of chances to improve and things just aren't working out, it's time to consider another option:...
Tags: Employee, Firing, Worker, Termination, Performance, Workplace, Management, Andrew Mager, Jennifer Alsever, Human Resources, BNET Feature Package
Articles 2008-02-19
How To Get the Talent Your Company Needs, Part I
With recession looming, it must be time to talk about how to hire people. Sure, things are uncertain, but they're always uncertain in the modern economy. That’s the theme of Peter Cappelli's "Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty." Cappelli, a professor at...
Tags: Talent, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2008-07-23
Models for People Management: Best Buy, Google, GE, Semco
A look at four models of people management — all radically different, all successful. General Electric: The Ruthless Meritocracy ...
Tags: Career Development, Google Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., General Electric Co., Semco, Professional Development, Training And Certification, Leadership, Career, Management, Lindsay Blakely, Google, Best Buy, General Electric, GE, Workplace, Culture, Perks, Organizational Hierarchy, Management Philosophy
Articles 2008-09-26
Sharapova closes in on No. 1 ranking, Clijsters' injury woes continue
BERLIN AFP — Maria Sharapova moved to within three wins of becoming world number one for the first time at the age of 18 when she reached the quarter-finals of the German Open. The top-seeded Wimbledon champion has dropped only seven games in two matches to get there, this...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Games
Research articles 2005-05-05
The secret sacking tool.
May 03, 2002 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- Employee performance reviews have become popular in the US in recent years. The forced ranking system is highly-regarded in many companies as a way of assessing staff performers and eliminating under-achievers. Ford introduced...
Tags: Ford Motor Co., performance, tool
Research articles 2002-05-04
NFL, Inc.: The Business Behind the Game
A look at the savvy management playbook that makes a $6 billion business tick. Despite a salary cap and a business model that requires all 32 teams to share revenue, the National Football League remains a booming $6.3 billion business in its 88th year — the biggest in American sports....
Tags: Team, NFL, Business, League, Team Management, Games, Management, Personal Technology
Articles 2008-12-19
Banks Get £31 Billion More Aid
By Clara Ferreira-Marques and Steve SlaterLONDON (Reuters UK) - Britain's two largest retail banks secured another 31 billion pounds from the government on Tuesday and agreed to sell branches and key businesses to appease EU competition concerns over state aid.Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group also accepted drastic...
Tags: Pound, Asset, Bank, Government, Financial Services, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
News items 2009-11-03
Another New Face at Chrysler
A month after hiring former Home Depot chief, Bob Nardelli, as CEO of embattled car manufacturer Chrysler, Cerberus Capital Management announced today that James E. Press, the highest ranking American at not-so-embattled Toyota, would become the company's new vice-chairman and co-president. Toyota recently surpassed Chrysler and Ford to become the...
Tags: Investment, Manufacturing, Fortune, Daimler AG, Financial Services, Finance, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2007-09-06
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