Microsoft is ending its controversial practice of using stack ranking to evaluate its employees. Instead, the company is changing its performance review program “to better align with the goals of our One Microsoft strategy,” wrote Lisa Brummel, the company’s executive vice president of human resources, in an internal memo reportedly sent to Microsoft employees on Tuesday. In a nutshell, the stack ranking technique requires managers to rate their employees on a curve — that is, from best to worst.
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Microsoft Gives Stack Ranking the Boot
Posted by: Erika Morphy November 13, 2013 03:50 PMMicrosoft is ending its controversial practice of using stack ranking to evaluate its employees. Instead, the company is changing its performance review program “to better align with the goals of our One Microsoft strategy,” wrote Lisa Brummel, the company’s executive vice president of human resources, in an internal memo reportedly sent to Microsoft employees on Tuesday. In a nutshell, the stack ranking technique requires managers to rate their employees on a curve — that is, from best to worst.