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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