Does anybody know for sure who gave the employees the SL4 or Stock levels in general? Was it the manager?, manager's manager?, a suggestion by the HR rep in the calibration session?
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Cowards who would do whatever their VPs tell them.
JamMXgj-1wxv Really, FLM jade enough span and size to be able to need to hit the IR and SL4/5 %? No more often it is SLM
FLM approved by SLMs. Easy.
It was the SLM choice in their organizations who they wanted to sacrifice. These chicken sh--s made it look like the FLMs were responsible, but FLMs were the trembling, little cowards who got to perform the deed and any fallout from it. FLMs did not even care to challenge My decisions, just act on them, even if their own group was decimated. Sad, but at least, we survive to tell the truth of the matter.
In our group, FLM gave them and SLM (VP) approved them. My FLM and SLM are buds and both useless.
Seeing who got ISP'd made it very clear that ratings were assigned for political vs. performance reasons, as sh*tbags in the "in crowd" watched work-horse "outsiders" get walked out of their cubes and into the parking lot. Meritocracy. LoL.
In my organization none of the direct reports of the SLM ever get the negative ratings. The distribution requirements are conveniently pushed down to to the most subservient and bootlicking among his or her FLMs. Who in turn come up with phony copouts to distribute them to their foot soldiers. Bottom line: Few or zero performance messages for those who report to SLMs and directors.
My FLM says they are forced by the bell curve of Focal, an outdated evaluation system. The SLM or higher will force it. The FLMs are strictly limited in the E, O, S and SSL allotments and the expectation is 15 percent will in some way be cued up for eventual ISP or VSP if needed to make HC targets.
SSL4/5 were given by clueless and/or spineless FLMs, pushed by SLM or TLM to meet forced distribution.
It will vary from organization to organization but for sure the SLM will have a big hand in it as usually at that level one has to make the distribution for O/E/S/IR as well as stock levels 1-5. Regardless of what people say at the GM level distributions must be met, and for most management it is most easy just to force all the organization at the SLM to also meet the distribution thus SLM decides on stock and performance message. Of course there will/are exceptions as I've seen third line and VPs that have strong impressions whether correct or not about people to give them positive as well as negative messages, and who are you to argue with the boss in the end, LOL