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Sunday at the Movies (Merit pay)
May 06, 2012 by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 07:39 AM
Here’s the ineffable Chris Christie, this time speaking on merit pay. Always watchable, always thought-provoking.
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This struck a nerve.
For a while, until I got so sick of it that I quit, I was a member of an Ontario provincial Teachers Performance Appraisal Task Force. To make a long and tedious story short:
1. Performance appraisal should be based on three to five KRAs (Key Result Areas), two or three of which should deal with measurable results. But our work was based exclusively on subjective processes, not results, and there were initially sixty one “look fors”!
21. Performance feedback should be immediate. Their procedure would introduce long (months or possibly years) delays between performance and feedback.
This is contrary to everything I know about behavior reinforcement - and I do know a little, having studied social psych, Skinnerism, and all that. Also to what I know about appraisal itself, having both given and received many appraisals during a long industrial career.
There’s a good book - “The One Minute Manager” - about all this.
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Posted by Frank Gue on 05/15 at 04:35 PM
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Yes…and always a little bit entertaining. Thanks for pointing me to this one!