Motivating workers 激励员工 Ranked and yanked 评级与封杀 Firms that keep grading their staff ruthlessly maynot get the best from them. 那些总是无情地把员工分个三六九等的公司或许并不能得到最好的效果。 Mayer: who s for the chop next? Mayer:谁是下一个要开除的? IT IS a brutal management technique in which bosses grade their employees performance along a vitality curve and sack those who fall into the lowest category. 老板们对雇员们的表现按照活力曲线来评定,然后把最差的一些炒掉鱿鱼的管理方法实在非常残酷。 Known as ranking and yanking, it had its heyday in the 1980s and 1990s. 这个被称为评级与封杀的做法在19世纪80和90年代达到了全盛期。 In America its popularity faded somewhat after it was seen to have contributed to the fall ofEnron. 在美国,实施该策略的公司因其被认为促成了安然公司的破产曾大量减少, Now it is back in the headlines. 不过现在这个字眼又重新见诸报端。 On November 8th All Things D, a tech-industrywebsite, reported that Yahoo staff are increasingly unhappy about a quarterly performancereview introduced last year by the new boss, Marissa Mayer. |