Being good at your job often attracts more work.
Have you ever heard the phrase, “10% of the people do 90% of the work.”?
It’s called ‘performance punishment’ and is a dangerous game for leadership.
Overworking your high-performers and not growing your under-performers is a fast track to disaster.
It breeds resentment. High-performing employees will leave and under-performers realize their performance level is adequate to keep their job.
Leaders need to be careful of this or they will find themselves continually training, re-training or even re-hiring more under-performers while high-performers seek employment with compensation packages commensurate with their skill and performance standards. Invariably, your high-performers have set expectations for themselves, and tend to hold their co-workers to those same expectations. And when those expectations are not met, the problem becomes a focus for them driving up stress. It is completely unfair to all concerned.
Be careful of this leadership pitfall.