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Microsoft Abandons Unpopular Employee Grading ScaleMicrosoft Abandons Unpopular Employee Grading Scale
Looks like what we have here is the makings of a kinder, gentler Microsoft (MSFT). The company has scrapped a long-standing but widely unpopular and divisive method of grading workers called “stack ranking,” in which managers were forced to review employees on a bell curve, irrespective of actual performance in some cases.
byDH Kass