I'd rather get yelled at in a meeting and sent out with the VP of sales to improve my knowledge/skills/value than sit around all year waiting for the 30 minute yearly 'performance review' where my managers tell me nothing.
Presumably there are things in between the two extremes.
Personally I think yelling and screaming is awfully unprofessional. He still would have been humiliated and embarrassed if the guy had called BS on him in other ways, I think, which is probably what made the lesson stick. He got cut down to size, and he knew he was wrong.
I think screaming can backfire, too. I had a guy yelling and pounding his fists in a meeting the other week, and it reduced my opinion of him further. (He wasn't angry with me nor the 10 or so other people present, who were looking at him like 'what a jerk').
If I want to spend time with someone who has temper tantrums, I'd much prefer the company of my daughter, who I don't see enough as it is.
