Companies Turn to Grades, and Employees Go to Court
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Abelson, Reed
New York Times, The
2001

Abstract:

An increasingly popular technique for evaluating employees is prompting lawsuits charging discrimination at three big companies. At issue is the ranking of managers, professionals and sometimes lower-level employees from best to worst, or grading them on a bell curve, and then using that ranking to help determine pay and sometimes whether to fire someone.