Business
Education and skills
Write the policy for the Pleasantville School District’s person-focused
pay program that will be shared with the teacher. At a minimum, be sure
to address the person-focused pay program’s:
Purpose and description, including effective policy dates.
Eligibility requirements. (Who is eligible to participate in the program?)
Acceptable types of education and training. (What is eligible for reimbursement?)
Awards for successful completion of training or education (promotional opportunities, compensation, non-monetary rewards, et cetera).
Empire-building trap and the sporadic-innovation trap
Rita McGrath, Columbia Business School professor and author of the article, “Transient Advantage,” discusses several traps that can blind a company to the need for imminent changes to their strategy to preserve competitive advantage. These traps, discussed in the second half of the article, include: the first-mover trap, the superiority trap, the quality trap, the hostage-resources trap, the white space trap, the empire-building trap, and the sporadic-innovation trap.
Face-to-face interaction
Your project sponsor or team leader has asked that you prepare a 2-3 page memo to provide your recommendation with the following required elements:
Paragraph 1 – Introduction
Paragraph 2 – Analysis
Paragraph 3 – Strategy and why it will help
Paragraph 4 – Detail of how the strategy will be executed and expected results
Paragraph 5 – Risks Analysis of the actions including a response plan
Paragraph 6 – Conclusion
Task 1: From your personal experiences working on a virtual team (could be a project team, in-class team or another team you worked on), please evaluate the issues outlined below. Note: If you never worked on a virtual team then, pls create a scenario where you are leading a team that has members in various countries and time zones – so, you need to conduct communications and progress via virtual/remote technology.
Public educational institutions
Pay for Performance in America’s public schools is an extremely controversial issue. Although the process has made inroads in business and is a means to help determine promotions, pay, and retention, pay for performance has not been consistently well received in the Public school systems. There are some successful examples where teacher pay has been linked to student test scores. In Minnesota for example, some districts have stopped giving automatic raises for seniority and base 60% of all pay increases on employee performance. In Denver, unions and school districts designed an incentive program where teachers receive bonuses for student achievement and for earning national teaching certificates. On the other hand, some plans have not worked. For example, Cincinnati teachers voted against a merit pay proposal and Philadelphia teachers gave their bonus checks to charity rather than cashing them. It appears that having teachers involved in planning the incentive system is one key factor to success. The same can be said for all incentive plans – if employees do not buy into them, they will not work.