Employee Ranking Systems LO16918

jon (jon_jenkins_imaginal_training@pi.net)
Mon, 9 Feb 98 07:29:34 PST

Replying to LO16903 --

Dear Robert

>> Don't we rank people any way? Employees rank managers, Managers rank
>> employees. Are we not suggesting that we should operate without values by
>> saying we should not rank? Is the issue not one of transparancy of how
>> the ranking is done and transparancy of the consequences of the ranking?

>Perhaps you spend time ranking your colleagues and those around
>you...personally, I don't. I can't ever remember looking around my
>workplace and saying "John is the tenth best trainer, Mark is the 3rd
>best, etc". That's what ranking is.

>Is that what you do? If so, I would be curious as to why?

I do. Not in the way you suggest but I do rank. If I am going to
facilitate a meeting in say Paris, I would prefer to work with Jan rather
than Pete. If I am asked to work in a team of people, would prefer
Maureen over Jan. When I have a request to management I prefer submitting
to one over the other.

I find it difficult to understand how you can not work in this way. Can
you explain?

Why do I do this? Because I have a set of values relative to work.
Values allow me to discriminate between things.

Jon

Name: Jon C. Jenkins
E-mail: imaginal@pop.pi.net (Jon C. Jenkins)

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