COM 322 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Harvard Business Review, Job Performance, Workforce Management
14 Jan 2016
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A players or a positions? : the strategic logic of. Firms like ge, ibm, and microsoft all have well-developed systems for managing and motivating their high-performance and high-potential employees and for getting rid of their mediocre ones. But focusing exclusively on a players puts, well, the horse before the cart. High performers aren"t going to add much value to an organization if they"re smoothly and rapidly pulling carts that aren"t going to market. They"re going to be effective only when they"re harnessed to the right cart. That is, engaged in work that"s essential to company strategy. But it"s surprising how few companies systematically identify their strategically important a positions and then focus on the a players who should fill them. Even fewer companies manage their a positions in such a way that the a players are able to deliver the a performance needed in these crucial roles.
