Each employee is classified, then the poorest 5% of employees are fired. Mayer's QPR is an evaluation of the performance of forced distributions. I say this because it is mentioned in the New York Times article that managers were “forced to give bad grades to a certain percentage of their team…” (Goel, 2016). Forced distribution is, as the name suggests, a performance evaluation method that requires managers to categorize employees. It appears that employees are ranked from 1 to 5, and then these ranks are used to classify the employee into various classifications, including the "bottom 5%." This form of performance evaluation is controversial and strongly disliked by many supervisors because it may not give an accurate picture of the employees being evaluated. This lowers morale and causes competition among employees which is counterproductive to the culture of a