Columnist Mike Ivey Bothered by People Having to Provide for Themselves

A new study in Personnel Psychology magazine says that systematically firing a pre-determined percentage of the worst employees each year improves productivity.  Researchers at Drake University used a computer model to simulate a work force over a 30-year period and found that improvements are made by removing the worst staff.  Columnist Mike Ivey of the Capital Times objects that it "sounds like a management approach that dovetails with the current neo-con vision of a sink or swim society where everyone must provide for their own health care, old age pension or job security. Those who can't cut it, well, too bad.  Whatever happened to the idea that Americans were all in it together?"  For an earlier post about a Mike Ivey column with a similar theme, see October 26th in the archives.