62% of the variation in ratings comes from the rater, not the person rated.
Scullen, Mount & Goff, 2000Insights
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You measure performance. do you manage it?
They have a management problem. They measure performance once a year, file the ratings, and wonder why nothing changes. Measurement tells you the score. Management changes it. The 5 differences are in the image. Save it
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“All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they get.”
Arthur JonesThe “70% of change fails” figure has no valid evidence behind it.
Hughes, 2011“A bad system will beat a good person every time.”
W. Edwards Deming, 1993A manager with 8 direct reports has 1,080 possible working relationships to manage.
V. A. Graicunas, 1933“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
Goodhart’s Law, as worded by Marilyn Strathern, 1997Nothing matches your search yet.
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