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Rank And Yank : An Organization

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Rank and Yank When dealing with performance improvement tools, an organization must focus on finding ways to strengthen their workforce. An organization must find ways to motivate their employees. This must be part of the organizations culture, the combination of motivation and organizational culture will lead the group into great success. Organizational culture is the personality of the organization, this involves values and norms (McNamara, 2000). Part of the idea of creating such culture will give an organization structure, this assembly must involve supporting the moral of the employees. Also, not to mention that such concept will eliminate the need to use the “Rank and Yank” tactic. This takes this project to the case in ethics, Rank and Yank: Legitimate Performance Improvement Tool or Ruthless and Unethical Management? (Gomez-Mejia, Balkin, & Cardy, 2012). This project will focus on analyzing the case and elaborating on significant knowledge gained from the case. The key learnings from the case are, one, force ranking brings a bad image for a corporation, two, the downsides of such approach.
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The case begins with explaining force ranking as a performance appraisal. The case tells the reader about the creator of this idea and its intentions. The intent of the forced ranking system is to improve the performance level of an operation by getting rid of bottom ten percent of performers and hiring replacements who will perform at a high level (Gomez-Mejia,

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