Comment by Yizahi
3 days ago
Did you try to analyze afterwards why your subordinates tried to do extra work, in that particular case? Maybe they thought that their performance (aka livelihood) would be tied to that leaderboard? And why would they have such a thought? I have some suspicions about the root cause of the issue :)
I was an IC procrastinating on my real work, not a manager. I think I implemented this in Github during my first sprint on the team. Managers are probably wise enough to the way of humans to not attempt something like this (Goodhart's Law and all that). I know as a fact my peers started pointing to the high score list I made as a way to start justifying asking for raises and things like that, to demonstrate that they were pulling their weight on the team harder than others.