Experiential Exercises
Experiential Exercises
7.2 The Pay Raise
OBJECTIVES
1. To further your understanding of salary administration.
2. To examine the many facets of performance criteria, performance criteria weighting, performance evaluation, and rewards.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Complete the Pay Raise Worksheet.
2. In the Forum, discuss your conclusions about who received which raise and your criteria used to award the salary increases.
Pay Raise Worksheet
April Knepper is the new supervisor of an assembly team. It is time for her to make pay raise allocations for her subordinates. She has been budgeted $3,000 to allocate among her seven subordinates as pay raises. There have been some ugly grievances in other work teams over past allocations, so Knepper has been advised to base the allocations on objective criteria that can be quantified, weighted, and computed in numerical terms. After she makes her allocations, Knepper must be prepared to justify her decisions. All of the evaluative criteria available to Knepper are summarized as follows:
Supervisory Ratings Output Absent
Employee Seniority Rating* Rate Skills Initiative Attitude Personal
David Bruce 15 yrs. 0.58 0.5% Good Poor Poor Nearing retirement. Wife just passed away. Having
7.2 The Pay Raise
OBJECTIVES
1. To further your understanding of salary administration.
2. To examine the many facets of performance criteria, performance criteria weighting, performance evaluation, and rewards.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Complete the Pay Raise Worksheet.
2. In the Forum, discuss your conclusions about who received which raise and your criteria used to award the salary increases.
Pay Raise Worksheet
April Knepper is the new supervisor of an assembly team. It is time for her to make pay raise allocations for her subordinates. She has been budgeted $3,000 to allocate among her seven subordinates as pay raises. There have been some ugly grievances in other work teams over past allocations, so Knepper has been advised to base the allocations on objective criteria that can be quantified, weighted, and computed in numerical terms. After she makes her allocations, Knepper must be prepared to justify her decisions. All of the evaluative criteria available to Knepper are summarized as follows:
Supervisory Ratings Output Absent
Employee Seniority Rating* Rate Skills Initiative Attitude Personal
David Bruce 15 yrs. 0.58 0.5% Good Poor Poor Nearing retirement. Wife just passed away. Having