And the French are subsidising Latvian agriculture, universities, roads, and infrastructure. I don't think it's fair to evaluate this policy isolated from the rest of EU policies.
Latvia and Lithuania have literally the cheapest telco services in Europe. It's no surprise that we have to pay a bit more now. Yes, we lose this time, but for the rest of the Europe it's a huge win.
I do performance management for Fortune 500 company. Literally two weeks ago we began redesigning the model.
It may sound that it would be difficult to change what has been going for years, but there are several factors that make it easier than it seems so:
- Normally performance management process is managed by few people even in companies sized in 10,000's of employees. Even if ultimately the decision is made by HR executives, it is easier to make such decision when there are so few directly involved people. These people are normally part of corporate, and they just provide the process for local HR that usually has no real say in how performance management is done.
- Both corporate HR and local HR are tired of this too. We have been hearing these points for long time. Every single year enforced/recommended (amongst other points) distribution brings heated discussions yet nothing is done. Executives hear this.
- Talent Management system vendors are becoming more flexible and allowing different models for performance management. Such system is needed, but no one would ever sign up for developing it themselves.
In overall, I think it is a matter of time till this spreads. Promoting the wrong people or blocking the good ones is very expensive.