Sink Or Swim

by Graham Email

An approach to career management for employees which consists of pitching a person who has succeeded in their previous role(s) into a new role for which they may be totally unprepared or incapable, without any training, preparation or coaching, and then retreating to a safe distance to await the outcome. As one might expect, the outcome is not often positive.
Sink Or Swim as a career management and people development approach is often co-morbid with other approaches such as scapegoating.