enforces a bell-curve performance review - Anonymous employee AECOM Employee Review

1.0
Sep 15, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

There is some opportunity to work on interesting projects especially if you are a middle aged white male.

Cons

Upper mangement is forcing managers to align distribution of employee performances into a pre-determined bell curve, where 10-15% are ranked as low performers, 70-80% are ranked as adequate, and 10-15% are ranked in uppermost categories. Once supervisors rank their direct reports, upper management will "realign" the supervisors' rankings to ensure all employees fit within bell curve. When will the employees have the opportunity to rank upper management using the bell-curve?

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