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Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed?
A data scientist’s perspective
As a quick reminder of the process at a typical Fortune 500 company, managers will annually hold a series of meetings, with the express purpose of slotting all employees into place on a “vitality curve” that looks something like this: I’ll also mention here that the conditions that birthed the modern performance management system (GE in the early 1980s) included an assumption of lifetime employment at a company, as long as major mistakes weren’t made. Sarah Flood, Miriam King, Renae Rodgers, Steven Ruggles, J. Robert Warren, Daniel Backman, Annie Chen, Grace Cooper, Stephanie Richards, Megan Schouweiler, and Michael Westberry.
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