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rank and yank

noun

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  1. A model of employee productivity in which workers are ranked into the top 20 percent, the…

    A model of employee productivity in which workers are ranked into the top 20 percent, the adequate 70 percent, and the bottom 10 percent, and those in the bottom group are fired.

    • Stack ranking had come into fashion after GE CEO Jack Welch used a similar system, called rank-and-yank, to turn around that company in the 1980s and 1990s.

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