| Title: | The Digital way of working |
| Moderator: | QUARK::LIONEL ON |
| Created: | Fri Feb 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5321 |
| Total number of notes: | 139771 |
Re.: Note 207
I read thru note 207 and all the replies thereto and became
totally confused. To try to better understand the subject I attempted
to analyze the matter using deductive logic. Unfortunately this
left me even more confused. I will repeat my analysis here in hopes
that someone out there can resolve this paradox.
Definitions/method: Excellent= "1" rating/sylogism
Major Premise: Overall excellent company performance
demands overall excellent people performance.
Minor Premise: Digital's overall performance is excellent.
Conclusion : Overall, Digital's people must be excellent.
Paradox : The overall "people" rating is only a "3".
-Mike Rains
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| 209.1 | 204 not 207 | BARNUM::RAINS | Fri Oct 24 1986 12:16 | 2 | |
Reference to note 207 should be to note 204. Sorry.
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| 209.2 | FDCV03::CROWTHER | Harry Crowther PK3-2/33G 223-1110 | Fri Oct 24 1986 12:56 | 18 | |
Suppose we let a 3 rating represent "average for Digital". Consider a different environment: the (US) military. It is said that military officers are rated (annually?) in "efficiency reports". Any officer who is not rated as "supremely efficient" (or whatever) is unlikely to be promoted. But, due to normal bureaucratic requirements, officers have to be promoted - therefore, more/less average officers are rated as "remarkably efficient", or (horrors!) the military would run out of officers. I understand that periodically even the military must normalize its rating system; that happened at DEC several years ago. The upshot of it is, that it's ok to be average. Let's just presume that every DEC employee is indeed relatively superior to the average employee (average hi-tech, average computer-industry, average electronics-industry, average of averages, etc.), and assign each DECcie a rating of 1, the best. Now what? Suppose we want to identify the highest-grade DECcies. Apparently we'd have to re-do the ratings, comparing each DEcie with all other DECcies. From this, you get an average, let's let it be 3... | |||||