Stack-ranking & the incentives of "hire to fire"
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Jack Welch is commonly "credited" with inventing stack-ranking, or as it was known "rank n yank". This was back in the 60's-70's. It's been thoroughly discredited as a practice long ago, in no small part due to the complete disaster GE turned out to be.
I'm amazed this stuff still persists.
We KNOW measuring people affects how they act, and usually not in the ways you want. And yet we still get people in HR pushing this because it blows their minds to simply have a manager say: "This person is doing a great job. Let's do what we can to keep them."