I have been with the company for decades and discovered that ranking is more about your role than anything else. I would love it if the corp would post ranking data in the data lake. The bias would be very easy to spot using data analytics tools.
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Movement happens by HR after ranking session complete. HR has targets. Not sure if target distributions are a legal requirement, but HR told me that it is done.
@sz So in other words, someone who isn’t white/male moved up in your company and you can’t deal with it. Got it.
EM was right to let you go. You should let EM go too.
@q7 when I was a supervisor a female minority who reported to me was moved back up to Outstanding after the rank group by her sponsor. It does happen.
@g4 Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most.
A version of this story gets posted here all the time, likely by the same person. It’s clearly BS.
There is no universe where an HR rep at an F5+ company walks into someone’s office and openly admits to having a workplace policy that violates federal EEO guidelines.
HR also runs analytics based on demographics and moves persons upward to reach target distributions, unrelated to the performance of those persons.
I know because one of my direct report’s final published RG was far above my other direct reports in that rank group. I thought this was an obvious mistake so contacted HR prior to communicating to the employee.
HR came to my office and told me that the demographic group he belonged to needed major adjustments to meet the distribution target so he had to be given that many points. HR guy implied that the distribution target was a legal requirement, so somebody please explain how legally EM has to achieve or avoid certain distributions of any demographic group.
There are certain groups with exceptions as well. For example, some planner rank groups don’t have anyone below “very good” because it’s considered a developmental role for higher performers.
If you're a supervisor, you'll be protected despite incompetence. #RolesMatter
I would say ranking is more of a popularity contest than anything else unless you are a superstar at your job.