Position Paper: Teacher Performance Pay John Filutze November 15‚ 2011 Jeff Abbott‚ Ph.D. Performance-based pay has been a hot topic among conversations regarding public education over the past several years. Performance-based pay‚ pay-for-performance‚ or merit pay‚ are all synonymous with pay programs “whereby teacher bonuses are tied to improvements in students’ performance” (Cissell‚ 2010‚ p. 119). Some programs even determine teacher pay‚ not just bonuses‚ based on
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Case Study #1 1. Virtual tryouts allow candidates to show off their real workplace problem solving abilities that may not be visible in a traditional business interview setting. The conventional method of interviewing candidates is both time consuming and expensive especially if the pool of candidates is large or turnover in that particular industry is high. Virtual assessments come at an initial cost but over time have shown to lead to lower costs in the hiring process. Candidates feel as though
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July 21‚ 2011 Merit or Mistake In today’s society one of the most important factors in selecting a career field is rate of pay. No matter whether the profession maybe‚ the dollar figure must be within a range that allows the employee to maintain a substantial lifestyle. The debate of teacher pay scales has raged on for years. Many argue that the current pay scale for teachers is a scale which rewards teachers merely for seniority. They argue that the current pay scale overlooks those educators
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Performance Management and Performance Based Pay Compensation and Benefits MGT 548 Cardinal Stritch University Group MSM 3-356 Instructor: Rafael Viscasillas 7/25/05 Table of Contents Performance based pay is an effective way to adequately distinguish between the best and worse performers within the company structure. Commonly referred to as merit pay or skill based pay‚ performance based pay is a compensation system designed to reward employees for attaining additional skills or for
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1. Introduction Performance related pay (PRP) is a financial rewarding system which is directly associated with the work accomplishment of employees. It seems that the basis of this process is cash or bonus payment: employees will be awarded cash or bonus when they achieve a greater performance. In the late 1980s and early 1990s‚ the system of payment by performance was widely applied in both private and public sectors in many organizations in the United Kingdom. Brown and Armstrong (1999) claimed
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Student’s Academic Performance? Is a student’s failure in a class an indication that a teacher or professor did not adequately perform his or her job? There are two points of view on this issue. Many will argue that teachers should be paid on a merit system‚ or Pay for Performance system. There are some that believe that there are too many external factors in a class room for a teacher’s salary to be based on how he or she performs in the class room. Teacher’s pay for performance will be highlighted
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MANAGERIAL COMPENSATION BASED ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCES IN VIET NAM BANKING SECTOR ABSTRACT Viet Nam banking sector was emerging rapidly after had joined WTO at the end of 2006 and performance contingent compensation is a widely accepted means for rewarding managers‚ but there is no empirical test of its effectiveness in Viet Nam banking sectors. Does managerial compensation to organizational performance lead to higher organizational performance? It appears to be a truism that if you
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Though there is support from psychological concepts for the implementation of merit pay increasing student achievements‚ there are also opposing arguments as to why merit pay would not help increase student performance. For example‚ educators cannot control who is assigned to their classes‚ and the motivation and ability of the students varies every year (Ramirez‚ 2011). The ability varies because of the different backgrounds the students come from which affects their intelligences‚ learning capabilities
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types of rewards or incentive systems to compensate employees. Merit pay is the most frequently used system which rewards teachers with base increases or bonuses for acquiring and demonstrating specific knowledge and skills needed to meet educational goals such as improving student achievement. The million dollar question is‚ does merit pay increase teachers’ performance? Those in favor of merit pay argue that teacher performance should be based on a broad range of factors that in combination
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1. Basic of performance-related pay (PRP) The popular reward system‚ performance-related pay (PRP) is defined as ¡¥a method of payment where an individual employee receives increases in pay based wholly or partly on the regular and systematic assessment of job performance¡¦ (Lewis‚ 1998). It is based on the expectancy theory that employees will increase their effort and/or direct it in specific directions to receive higher payment. (Taylor‚ 2000) It usually takes one of the following two forms
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