• Learners: Individuals with high potential for advancement who are performing below standard.
• Stars: Individuals presently doing outstanding work and having a full potential for continued advancement; these people are on fast-track career paths.
• Solid citizens: Individuals whose present performance is satisfactory but whose chance for future advancement is small. These people make up the bulk of the employees in most organizations.
• Deadwood: Individuals whose present performance has fallen to an unsatisfactory level; they have little potential for advancement