Focuses on the dilemma of a young professor at the Graduate School of Business. He has to decide what the final assessment, to give to a student who has worked very hard, but it is limited in the school "forced curve" classification policy. Designed to explore several purposes of measuring performance (motivation, assessment, early warning) and the assumptions underlying the performance management system. "Hide
by Robert L. Simons Source: Harvard Business School 8 pages. Publication Date: Dec 03, 1997. Prod. #: 198083-PDF-ENG
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