
I doubt there are any lovers of stack ranking out there. Wow, I left this one, figuring by now someone may have a better idea that I did and I was really looking forward to reading that response.

I am very curious to know from experienced leaders how they tackled the negative side-effects of stack-ranking and managed to keep employee morale from sinking like a stone? Sure, I can vibe well with a number of employees but at the end of the day, I'm not the guy deciding their paycheck.

Then A4's position within A's team is determined, subject to how A1, A2, A3 fared when compared across their peers in teams B, C and D. This would ensure a range of scores - ranging from 30/100 to 90/100 maybe.Īnother idea I can think of is instead of a relatively rating A's reportees A1, A2, A3 and A4 (where A1 is an experienced member and A4 is a relatively new member), we compare A4 with B4, C4 and D4(all are similarly experienced) while A1 is compared with B1, C1 and D1 (all similarly experienced).

They can be identified solely by their participation in a certain group, not their intellect.” “It’s based on the idea that there are systems of oppression that disadvantage certain groups … and that individuals can be reduced to only these groups. “There’s a rationalization of progressive stacking, but all it does is give a justification for what is over-racism,” Moroz said. Jain said progressive stacking functions well in “social classes that center raced or gendered issues” because it “tells minority students that their voice matters, and allows them the first opportunity (not the only opportunity) to voice their opinions that can often be rooted in personal experience.”īut College and Wharton sophomore and Co-Director of Penn College Republicans editorial board Michael Moroz said he thinks the use of progressive stacking in the classroom is “overt” discrimination. “Progressive stacking is a great way to combat this.”

“Within, we have often discussed 'imposter syndrome,' which can cause women and students of color to feel as though they do not belong at Penn,” Internal Director of PAGE and College sophomore Tanya Jain said in an emailed statement. Some student groups say progressive stacking can be valuable at Penn. “This tiny little technique that is trying to implement is a miniscule attempt at intervention for these huge social forces that play out in classroom discussions," Daniels added. She cited her own use of this concept as an instructor as a parallel example and noted that, while her classes consist mostly of women, she remains susceptible to “those same societal biases that everyone is that favor men.”ĭaniels said that because “systematic racial and gender discrimination … plays out within the classroom,” she tries to call on the women in her class before the men.
