At 10:23 AM 3/20/01 -0500, you wrote:
>At issue is the ranking of managers, professionals and sometimes
>lower-level employees from best to worst, or grading them on a bell curve,
>and then using that ranking to help determine pay and sometimes whether to
>fire someone. ...
>"Companies are playing their version of `Survivor,' " said David Thomas, a
>professor at the Harvard Business School.
Grading on a curve sets up competition amongst workers in a big way. This
encourages behavior like that sometimes seen among pre-Meds: some will
steal books from the library to sabotage their competitors, because there
are only a limited number of A grades (and slots at the Medical schools).
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
