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- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- 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...
- Articles 2007-03-20
- Can Loyalty Prevent a Layoff?
- If you're a demonstrably loyal employee, would you be spared during a layoff? That's the premise tackled by Jack Welch in a recent column on his The Welch Way blog. Welch writes, "For starters, we can certainly tell you when loyalty feels like the most important...
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- Employers: When This Buyer's Market Ends, What Will You Do?
- Sure, the recessions stinks. But for employers, the silver lining has been that it's created a deeper talent pool. More unemployment = more top-notch people looking to land at your company -- often, at a significant discount. But what will happen when recovery hits? ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Suzy Welch on Making Career (and Life) Decisions
- The author and wife of Jack Welch discusses her personal strategy for making important decisions, the true value of business school, and why she feels her work stands on its own, famous husband or not. What exactly is 10-10-10? It’s a way...
- Articles 2009-04-27
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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...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-05
- The Irrational Side of Change Management
- Most change programs fail, but the odds of success can be greatly improved by taking into account these counterintuitive insights about how employees interpret their environment and choose to act. In 1996, John Kotter published Leading Change. Considered by many to be the seminal work...
- Articles 2009-05-15
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