Re:Hopefully fair performance reviews for software developers
by kqr on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:10AM
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Given how little most managers actually care about creating a great workplace, I'm not surprised things like "you can't make them care" are assumed to be true.
In a great workplace, people start to care. They feel pride over their workmanship and social responsibility with other employees. (In general. As always, there are outliers that need to be handled differently, but they're a small minority.)
What if the greats do that, and the others just don't care enough to learn, like this is a blue collar job with white collar pay to them?
They could be greater than they are; they think they're great already, but they're nowhere near the true greats on the team.
You can't make them care and you can't make them want to be great.