∙ Forced Ranking Systems: Pros and Cons

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”…there’s been a spirited dialogue around a controversial management technique – ‘stacking,’ also known as ‘stacked rankings’ and ‘forced rankings.’ "All are names for performance evaluation systems in which organizations require set percentages of employees to be ranked in specific categories – for example, ‘top,’ ‘good,’ ‘fair,’ ‘poor….’ ”The system did force managers to have hard conversations with employees that they might otherwise have avoided…. “Put simply, it caused employee morale problems….” Source: Forbes.com

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