Jeff,
There has been a great deal of work done in the past 5-10 years in the
design and implementation of pay systems to support team-based work
systems. Dr. Ed Lawler and many, many other experts in the field now say
that there is no place in a high performance organization for traditional
merit pay. Organizations are moving toward skill or competency-based pay
supplemented by team bonuses, gain-sharing plans, stock option plans, and
stock ownership plans.
While there is clear progress being made, I agree that the large majority
of organizations are still using systems that undermine their efforts to
manage more effectively.
Best regards,
Roxanne
At 03:30 PM 10/9/97 +0200, you wrote:
>Can list members give their thoughts/opinions on GRADING systems in
>learning orgs. Grading employees doesn't work that well in team-based and
>multi-skilled environments.
>
>What I seem to find in my travels across different organisations, is that
>many talk about team structures, quality, learning, all the necessary hype
>that make them sound like they're world class; but back home they rely on
>the same old dysfunctional administrative systems that kill any good
>initiative. I'm generalising somewhat here, so my apologies to those who
>have initiated fundamental "real" change.
>
>"Jeff Blumberg" <jeffb@illovo.co.za>
--Roxanne Abbas Abbas Compensation Strategies rabbas@comp-web.com http://www.comp-web.com
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