Tag Archives: Performance management

Employee Performance Does Not Follow a Bell Curve

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Alexander Szewczak

Here’s a great post written by Josh Bersin that’s gotten a lot of attention in the past few days:  The Myth of the Bell Curve.  As I mentioned several weeks ago, more and more evidence shows that employee performance in the … Continue reading →

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Rigid stack ranking of employee performance and pharmaceutical research is a bad combination

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Alexander Szewczak

Microsoft’s recent decision to abandon employee stack ranking is just the latest example of the growing skepticism around stack ranking performance management schemes, especially ones that force bottom 5-10% distributions.  Sadly, some pharmaceutical firms still use the method. The major arguments against stack … Continue reading →

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