Employee Ranking Systems LO17712

Winfried Dressler (winfried.dressler@voith.de)
Thu, 9 Apr 1998 09:50:13 +0100

Replying to LO17686 --

Ed Brenegar provided a key for me to link this thread to the essentiality
"becoming - being" (liveness) of At de Lange. Recognising the parallel was
a joyfull moment for me and may be fruitful for the list as well.

Ed demands to add "becoming" to a just "being" point of view without
rejecting "being" in favour of sole "becoming", thus his contribution
helps to balance this thread. To proof this, I will cite the key parts of
Ed's mail and include "being" und "becoming" in brackets.

> Second, people are simply competent or not.

I think you wanted to write the opposite:
> Second, people are *not* simply competent or not.
(people are not just being)

> The better and flexible a company or organization is in dealing with the
> complexity (part of this is balanced becoming - being) of human nature,
> the more they will get out of the person.

> I've been evaluated, and that has also left something to be desired.
> What I never had was a sense of commitment (becoming - being) to being
> (being) a partner in achieving (becoming) the goals (higher order being) for
> my area. It usually was this detached critical observer who went down a
> list (sole being).

> My point is that unless ranking and/or evaluation (statement of being)
> lead to equipping the employee to perform better (provide for balanced
> becoming),

and most remarkable:

> it is a waste of time, energy and a distraction from the normal course of
> work.

You also could say: normal course of life, which consists of entropy
production (the 2. law of thermodynamics as fundamental law defining the
arrow of time) and with this: emergent and digestive learning,
bifurcations and the risk of immergences. Whenever any essentiality is
impaired (becoming - being in this case), creative learning cannot take
place, thus time and (free) energy is wasted, because it is distracted
from the normal course of life.

I hope, this helps to attach some color to the "strange" terminology of At
de Lange, and to grasp the idea, that it may be helpful for finding the
route (becoming) in a whole variety of daily situations (being).

Best regards,
Winfried,

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Winfried.Dressler@voith.de


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