Question

Is Deming Still Relevant?

Consider the Deming's point below and discuss how it could be applied successfully to your group, team, or organization. You may need to do additional research to understand Deming's goal with these points.

Remove barriers that rob people of joy in their work. This will mean abolishing the annual rating or merit system that ranks people and creates competition and conflict.

Answer 1

Deming, in his 14 point key principles for business transformation. The 12^th point suggests to remove barriers that rob people of joy in their work. This will mean abolishing the annual rating or merit system that ranks people and creates competition and conflict.

In my point of view, although Deming is right in his view, it doesn’t hold much water in this competitive world. All the companies in the world has got a performance appraisal system that compares everyone’s performance with each other. This performance rating is also not done strictly because there is lots of partiality and favouritism shown during the ratings. Managers, if they like someone, even if they don’t work sincerely, will rate them high. On the other hand, even if someone who works hard but if the manger doesn’t like one, will be rated negative thus bringing huge psychological stress on them. It also creates tension among the employers because they can’t see someone who does the same work, in the same way rated high and get a promotion, while they are not thus creating enmity among employees.