Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rank and yank

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.98 in modern English

Syllables: rank and yank
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A model of employee productivity in which workers are ranked into the top 20 percent, the adequate 70 percent, and the bottom 10 percent, and those in the bottom group are fired.

Informal; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Stack ranking had come into fashion after GE CEO Jack Welch used a similar system, called rank-and-yank, to turn around that company in the 1980s and 1990s."

Usage

Phrases

up or out

Frequently Paired Words

up or out

Questions

What does rank and yank mean?: A model of employee productivity in which workers are ranked into the top 20 percent, the adequate 70 percent, and the bottom 10 percent, and those in the bottom group are fired.

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