Originally posted by TedH42 That's about right.No, really.
That's an old method. The new trend that's picking-up recently (coming from Apple and Amazon management practices), is to set goals that are 2x or 3x higher than what's possible to achieve, every one miss his goal , just to put employees in inferior position at the next yearly staff appraisal (no increase of paie, despite very hard work done). That method is said to max out team performance because what's being achieved at impossible goal, is superior to what would have been achieved if the goal was achievable. The down side is more burnouts, some employees just quit as they can't stand the pressure, they get replaced. That method is slowing progressing at blue chip companies.