Ella has been charged with evaluating employees. She has been told that she can only give a small percentage of her employees $5s,$ another percentage $4s,$ and so on$.$ to use a comparison approach to performance management. Luckily, the organization is not very large. She simply organized employees from best to worst and then organized them into the prescribed buckets. Which approach to performance management did she use?

Paired comparison

Ranking approach

Absolute approach

D Forced distribution