Stacked employee ratings and performance bell-curves

Some employers grade their employee’s job performance on a curve.  In these systems, like back in college, the employer generally sets the number of A, B,C’s etc. to assign to the employees performance.  Proponents argue that the system is more fair and adds to employee moral in the long run.  Neal Buethe of

Briggs and Morgan,

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Nancy Gunzenhauser and Jeffrey Landes of Epstein Becker Green

discuss some of the legal issues to consider when adopting these types of systems.

 

Published by

Dwight Steward, Ph.D.

Dr. Steward regularly writes and speaks on topics involving business and individual economic damages, employment audits, and the analysis of payroll and time data in wage and hour investigations. Dr. Steward has also held teaching positions at The University of Texas-Austin in the Department of Economics and in the Red McCombs School of Business, The College of Business at Sam Houston State University, and at The University of Iowa. He has taught numerous courses in statistics, corporate finance, labor economics, business policies, managerial economics, and microeconomics.