There is a general ideal that employees should not be judged based on performance. The ideal is people are generally going to do well and therefore should not be judged. Unfortunately, you would not buy a bad album of your favorite artist just because he/she is your favorite artist. You expect that the artist will perform. You like the individual but not what he/she has produced, i.e. a bad album.
The same is true of performance-based judgments. The employee is there to do a function that creates a return for the company. He/she is not there to simply fill a hole.
We should remember that our American ancestors immigrated so that their actions would be the basis and not their lineage and entitlement. Why should entitlement be a part of business? Leave entitlement to the French and their new graduates.
