This has been [unwritten] standard practice in large corporations for a couple of decades.
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>>This has been [unwritten] standard practice in large corporations for a couple of decades.
PIP seems to have become a popular tool to the new generation middle managers for the purpose of a homogeneous team. That is, PIP has become an acceptable and common practice to get rid of the black horse employee that is typically high-skilled and highly productive, thus at odds with a team of mostly mediocre members (including the manager) and hard to terminate based on pure work performance.
COMMERCE BETWEEN MASTER AND SLAVE IS ____________?