One of the most hated aspects of stack-ranking process was that, throughout its various forms over the years, it required managers to grade their subordinates on a bell curve.
In June, Edward F. Stancik, the special commissioner for investigations for the New York City school system, reported that an administrator in District 5 in Harlem had ordered a subordinate to change the grades of some students at Intermediate School 43 from "fail" to "pass" last year.
Beneath him might be as many as three grades of subordinate priests who could substitute for him in ceremonies.
On Friday, Moody's Investor Services announced downgradings that left Motorola's subordinated debt classified as below investment grade -- junk bonds in industry jargon -- and its senior unsecured debt rating just one step higher.
He describes the in-house culture as "notoriously confrontational," and writes that because managers in departments of 50 or more people are required to "top-grade" their subordinates along a curve (and dismiss the least effective performers), "many Amazon employees live in perpetual fear" of termination.
The administrator, Frederick King, director of middle school programs for Community School District 5 in Manhattan, ordered a subordinate at the district office to change the students' grades to "pass" from "fail" in a district computer system without the knowledge of the assistant principal who was in charge of the summer program at the school, Intermediate School 43, Mr. Stancik said.
These results would suggest that tumour-based factors such as grade, COX-2 expression or T-lymphocytic infiltration are subordinate to systemic factors such as C-reactive protein in determining survival in patients with transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder.
Form a claw with your subordinate hand.
This will effectively subordinate the debenture holders C$5.1 billion debt, and result in a downgrade of these debentures from investment quality to junk grade.
Authority vs. subordinate.
