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How Employee Monitoring And Ranking Harms Collaboration

The Horizons Tracker

The ranking of employees was all the rage in the Jack Welch era, with the famous GE CEO encouraging managers to rank employees as either A players, B players or C players. They highlight, however, how rankings can also have a dark side, not least in the support of cooperation among employees. Working as a team. Sharing reputation.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Successful Leadership Is Not One Size Fits All

Coaching Tip

Jack Welch is quoted as saying, "What sets GE apart is a culture that uses diversity as a limitless source of learning opportunities, a storehouse of ideas whose breadth and richness is unmatched in world business." They are, in effect, gathering data from empowered employees and acting on the best information available. GE and HCL.

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Understanding the Game Being Played in Washington

Harvard Business Review

In other words, it’s an interaction among “agents” who “base their decisions on limited information about actions of other agents in the recent past, and they do not always optimize.”. But looking at the short-term interests of the different players, as opposed to their stated goals, does open up opportunities for negotiation and cooperation.