Manager shared that they were told if the give an exceeds they have to give an IM. It has nothing to do with performance. Literally you have to pick out of a hat. So my take is if layoffs and reviews have no basis in reality then why try? Do the minimum to not get fired but after that forget it. Seems like a bad way to run a successful company but oh well.
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@gn So what your saying is it's a manager problem all around, starting with overhiring.
WF has gone to this to get rid of the way too many employees they hired over the last few years. They ask managers to rank their employees and work to either improve the performance or work to get rid of the lowest performers. This happens in companies across the country, not just WF. This happens because many WF managers are mo--ns who have zero management skill whatsoever and would never even consider getting rid of low achievers, coffee badgers and do nothings if WF didnt hold their feet to the fire. Sad but true. Of course these same id--t managers sc--w up the rankings and sometimes end up getting rid of good people because they dont know how to do their jobs on literally any level.
@by that is completely ridiculous to think a "good" manager stack ranks! The best managers motivate, inspire, coach and mentor their teams to be great at their jobs. It is equally ridiculous you think those who received IM or NI all did something to deserve it.
Forced Distributions/Stacked Ranking is the only way Wells thinks it can force management to actually do their jobs. Decades of blanket 3’s, equal merits across the board, nearly equal bonus’ and fear of confrontation. That’s not real life.
However I don’t see another way you can force managers to fairly and accurately rate those below them after this stays quo for so long. Why should I get even a COLA adjustment if I’ve been putting out 25% of what anyone else on the team has been? Unfortunately now the real producers should benefit while some of the workhorse end up negatively affected along with the bottom feeders.
Right. Stack ranking is well studied and documented as breeding a toxic environment.