Managing for Quality and Performance Excellence 10th Edition by James Evans ,William Lindsay

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Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, stated his passion for making people GE's core competency yet he used a system in which executives in the bottom 10 percent of a forced performance ranking were eliminated. What do you think of this approach? How does it fit with a total quality philosophy? How would you respond to someone who says, "I think all my people are pretty good. If I fire the bottom 10 percent, that would just give me a new bottom 10 percent. Where does it end?"