Staff Development wrote:
> For example, can an appropriately designed Performance Appraisal system
> accurately determine the value of an employee? Should the bottom 10% of
> employees as measured by that Performance Appraisal system be fired?
> Should a Learning Organisation ever indulge in mass dismissals?
well, not knowing what truth is, except when I see's it, I'll hope someone
more qualified that myself tackles that question.
I am interested in your questions about a PA system, though. If a
performance appraisal system is being used, then I would want to dismiss
everyone below the 50%ile on the ranking system. These people are simply
not up to the same level of productivity, efficiency, competency, etc.
This makes excellent sense--else why have an appraisal system that ranks
people?
I may consider training a few of the under 50%ile, if I thought they could
get up over the mark--but, then, someone currently above would drop down.
I'm better off training the ones over the half-way line than the ones
under it, right? Conceivably, the ones who are under the 50%ile are not
contributing anyway, so they can leave without much impact on the
organization.
Now, the new folks who I hire to replace the ones I let go have to get up
to speed relatively quickly. If they want to stay, they'll need to be
good enough within a specified period of time to supplant the people who
were better than the 50%ile last time. Of course, the training curve
might be tough, since I'm relying on the over 50%ile bunch to train the
new folks. There might be a conflict of interest, but, then, that's
competition for you.
what I want to know is, does the person who stays behind in an
organization stay behind because they were more competitive and competent
than I was--and I lost--or am I the winner because I left an organization
where I think that everyone else is incompetent and noncompetitive?
Doc
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