stack rank
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A ranking of employees conducted in order to identify and oust the lowest performers in a company or organization.
verb
To rank something by order of importance.
Example Sentences
- "Eventually, the vice presidents would have to bargain among themselves for how many bonuses and raises they would get for their entire organizations, then ration them out according to the stack rank."
- "Yahoo — which puts employees in one of five "buckets", from "greatly exceeded" goals, down to "missed" targets — says its system is not a stack rank. But according to Nicholas Carlson’s recent book, the effects were the same."
- "The first time a person is No. 1 in the stack rank versus their peers, a light turns on. The first time a person tastes a large bonus, a light turns on. For every "first time," a light turns on. Once you taste success, you want to repeat, repeat and repeat."
- ""We do not, nor have we ever, stack ranked our employees. This is not a practice that Amazon uses," said spokesperson Jaci Anderson, in an email. She said the goal of the company’s performance review process is to "give employees more information and insights to continue to grow in their careers at Amazon.""
- "People talk about a hybrid workplace — mixing virtual and more "intentional" in-person gatherings rather than having a full-time physical workplace or a full-time virtual one. But others think it will depend on the employee and their performance, so it is a good idea to stack rank your workers?"
- "Just as companies put workers on performance improvement plans or stack rank them, executives must be held accountable to the same policies."