T'was like a Big Brother state though and did nothing for staff morale.
Indeed. And what use was made of such information, one wonders?
Or can we assume that is was simply used as a stick with which to beat the happy workers?
It's a well known "management" technique, that of setting everyone in competition with everyone else. It can even work well (in the sense of delivering the results required by the Organisation) ... in the army, for example!
In my experience, given time, the happy worker sees through all that c**p, and (assuming of course that s/he is even
interested in so-called "career development" at all) ends up simply "playing the game" (that is, "giving them what they want" ... but little, if anything, else). Oh yes, it's a great tool (but just one of the many) for stifling initiative or any semblance of creativity, and producing a team of, er ...
drones!
