How employees' rankings disrupt cooperation and how managers can restore it

(Bocconi University) First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado, second prize a set of steak knives, third prize you're fired » . What Alec Baldwin introduces in a famous Glengarry Glen Ross scene is a particularly crude form of performance ranking and what follows in the movie is a story of cheating and infighting as actors attempt to get ahead in the raking. In the real life, the risks with performance rankings are similar, Bocconi Professor Cassandra Chambers finds.
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