Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Is it Fair to Let Them Go Using Performance Appraisal Data to Decide on Staff Cuts
Karen Macmillan, Matt PereiraCase IVEY-W25619-ELeadership and People ManagementRodey Wing, a partner at global management consulting firm Kearney, had to decide what to recommend to a struggling retailer client with over 200,000 employees. With the client’s optometry division suffering from an excess of employees partly due to a pandemic downturn, Wing had initially planned to cut 1,500 employees from the division---laying off those with the lowest performance review ratings. However, a disproportionate impact assessment of...Starting at €8.20