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The 10% World of Group IT
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Date: 11th Jul 2005
The Bank’s Group IT department has said that 10% of staff must go through the Group’s performance improvement process (PIP) in any given year. LTU have said that is unacceptable.
By focusing on a meaningless 10% target, the PIP process simply becomes a numbers game driven from the centre. For example, if by November the numbers of IT staff who have been subjected to PIPs during the course of 2005 is only 6%, then line management will be scrambling around for the rest of the year looking for potential PIP victims in order to meet their 10% target.
Mark Brown, Assistant General Secretary, also said that “Group IT's '10% World' also assumes that rankings are comparable from one division to another: being the third best employee in one division is not the same as being the third best employee in another. Rankings have no absolute meaning. All IT staff in one division may be high performers, but ranking will force some staff to be labeled poor performers. The opposite may be true in another division.”.
He went onto say “We accept that circumstances may arise where the standard of an individual's performance is such that a downgrading or even dismissal may be justified. However, what LTU are not prepared to accept a process which is driven by a target for the number of staff on performance improvement plans which has been put in place simply to show Eric Daniels that underperformance is being tackled in Group IT.”
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