talent-management
Forced Ranking
Forced Ranking is a performance appraisal approach where managers are required to rate employees into predetermined performance buckets, often following a bell curve distribution. In Indian organisations, forced ranking aimed to counter rating inflation, but it has been criticised for damaging collaboration and morale. Many companies now use absolute rating scales or continuous feedback instead.
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