Companies Revisit 'Rank And Yank' of 1980s
By Yuki Noguchi
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Dec 2, 2013
Originally published on December 2, 2013 11:27 am
Longtime General Electric CEO and management icon Jack Welch popularized a management style in the 1980s that critics dubbed "rank and yank." The system ranks employees — with under-performers getting yanked from their jobs or the company. This old practice is in the news again. Microsoft recently did away with it. But other companies are embracing it.