KAZIM LADIMEJI | April 2, 2015

Research from the Harvard Business Review found that a company’s success is not only dependent on the careful management of A and B performers: it also depends on how effectively C players (defined for our purposes as “the bottom 20 percent of performers”) are pruned. Its clear that C players should shape up or ship out — that is, they need to be energized, re-energized, or fired.

https://www.recruiter.com/i/what-should-you-do-with-c-players/