The short form is that in a Stacked Ranking performance measurement system, you rank every employee in an ordered list. Most often the next thing you hear is th

The short form is that in a Stacked Ranking performance measurement system, you rank every employee in an ordered list. Most often the next thing you hear is that the top X% of employees are the ones who will be given raises/bonuses, and the bottom Y% of employees are the ones who will be finding new jobs. Reasonable references to get you started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/stacked-ranking http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/stacked-ranking http://www.businessinsider.com/stack-ranking-employees-is-a-bad-idea-2013-11 http://www.businessinsider.com/stack-ranking-employees-is-a-...