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0 pointsmangamadaiyan1y ago0 comments

Who stack-ranks the management? How?

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mc321y ago

You would have employees evaluate the managers. You can have outside consultants also evaluate the health of the management --but that can get tricky.

mangamadaiyanOP1y ago

Neither approach works.

Engineers (management are also employees, right?) ranking management erodes management authority, and management will never stand for it.

Outside consultants are usually hired with a fixed agenda - the rotten eggs almost always get to stay.

Stack ranking is evil, period.

mc321y ago

It is, but it may be periodically necessary to get rid of dead weight and extirpate those who’ve risen to their level of incompetence.

I'm not advocating stack ranking for yearly review but rather a quintennial or decennial event to clean-house. In other words, a mechanism to avoid what happened to Boeing, Intel, Yahoo, and what is happening to Google and others.

360 reviews obviously allows orgs to get fat and carry bloat.

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mc321y ago

You would have employees evaluate the managers. You can have outside consultants also evaluate the health of the management --but that can get tricky.

mangamadaiyanOP1y ago

Neither approach works.

Engineers (management are also employees, right?) ranking management erodes management authority, and management will never stand for it.

Outside consultants are usually hired with a fixed agenda - the rotten eggs almost always get to stay.

Stack ranking is evil, period.

mc321y ago

It is, but it may be periodically necessary to get rid of dead weight and extirpate those who’ve risen to their level of incompetence.

360 reviews obviously allows orgs to get fat and carry bloat.

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