But leaders face a common conundrum: Should they compare members of their team relative to one another or evaluate everyone independently?
It can push out otherwise excellent employees who are averse to the dog-eat-dog culture that can grow out of stack ranking systems.
It is possible to take this tendency into account when designing a relative ranking system based on objective criteria.
Even in isolation, stack ranking systems don't "necessarily kill collaboration, provided you incorporate collaboration into the criteria," he says.
"There's this notion that you can have a healthy level of competition and still foster collaboration," Georgiadis says.
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