It is another way for Yahoo! to – can be said – increase the productivity of the firm and to get employees being more motivated: Put their working result and behaviour on a curve. This ‘testing’ works for both pros and cons. However, think about how the business supposed to run ethically, this ranking system does not fit to what ethically means and completely arbitrary.

Through pros, since employees are worried on what position they are going to be ranked (on what levels), they forced themselves to do their maximum in order to give best performances for the success of the company. However, as the cons, this might give them pressures, stress and inflexibility toward their working habit that they used to have, which causes uncomfortable working atmosphere.

When Yahoo!’s employees said, “The rankings are both high-stakes and completely arbitrary.” it seems more make sense. Aside from the ranking might offend their feelings, it is ethically wrong. It

built wrong values internally, although it has a good purpose on pursuing the firm’s goal. Yahoo! should not do the ranking curve, at least they are willing to make future considerations or plan B if something went wrong with the employees’ working environment.

Source: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-12/yahoos-latest-hr-disaster-ranking-workers-on-a-curve#r=hpt-ls