Organization & Leader - Essay 2

What is stack ranking

Is a forced ranking system that builds on performance within the organization. Managers and employees are categorized into a predefined distrribution of performance levels - making a clear bottom and top tier.

Employee perspective on stack ranking

Feelings like ther efforts aren’t truly recognized due to constanct fera of being in the bottom tier.

Presure to outperform everyone else and lead to excesive workhours and later-on burnouts.

Managers perspective on stack ranking

Opens up oppurtunities to undermine engagement, trust and overall the health of the company.

Direct impact on the company’s essential need for continious innovation.

Theory X - Pessimistic view

Assume employees are lazy, dislike work and willing at all cost to avoid responsibility.
Motivated by external factors like money and job security.

Theory X - Managers

Work with strict control and close supervision, to get work done.

Working with the typical vertical strucutre, with a clear top and bottom tier.

Theory X - Employees

Little freedom in the work environment fosters stress about always outperforming everyone else.

Risk being passive during work - since they wait around for instructions from the managers

Theory Y - Optimistic view

Assume employees like work, are motivated and willing to take on responsibilities.

People get to be creative and resoruceful within the company.

Theory Y - Managers

Adopt a participative and empowering role, where they believe more in delegating authority and involving their employees in decision-making

Theory Y - Employees

More control over their work, resulting in higher engagement towards the companys goals. Given oppurtunities to learn and grow within their work areas as well.

Downsides with X & Y

People don’t fit into the boxes, meaning that individuals motivation and behavior shift depending on their personality, the task and the work environment.

The theory can’t even be applied at every organization, since it must be based on the approach from the companys leaders and managers. Depening on the vertical or horizontal management sytle as well.

What does Abraham Maslow’s theory stand for?

Human motivation, and how human are arranged in hierachical order - meaning that individuals are motivated to fulfull lower-level needs before they can progress to higher-level needs.