Meaning of stack rank | Babel Free

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A ranking of employees conducted in order to identify and oust the lowest performers in a company or organization.

Examples

“Eventually, the vice presidents would have⟳ to bargain among themselves for how many bonuses and raises they would get⟳ for their entire organizations, then ration them out according to the stack rank.”

“Yahoo — which puts employees in one of five "buckets", from "greatly exceeded" goals, down to "missed" targets — says its system is not a stack rank. But according to Nicholas Carlson’s recent book, the effects were the same.”

“The first time a person is No. 1 in the stack rank versus their peers, a light⟳ turns on. The first time a person tastes a large bonus, a light⟳ turns on. For every "first time," a light⟳ turns on. Once you taste⟳ success, you want⟳ to repeat⟳, repeat⟳ and repeat⟳.”

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