Questions:
1. What size raise would you give each of these employees?
2. What criteria did you use in determining the size of the raises?
3. What do you think would be the feelings of the other people in the group if they found out what raises you recommended?
4. Do you think the employees would eventually find out what other raises others received? Would it matter?
Think of the most recent job you held or that you currently hold. This job could have been a summer, part-time, or full-time job. Which of these two situations decribed below better characterize this job?
A. Rewards (monetary and no monetary) were tied directly to one’s level of performance; management attempted to discriminate between the high and low performers and reward accordingly.
B. Everyone with very broad, general categories received basically the same rewards; one’s level of performance did not substantially affect the rewards received.
Depending on which situation you selected, what effect do you think it had on your level of motivation? If you selected A, explain basically how the system worked. If you selected B, what specific recommendations would you make to improve the performance-reward relationship? Be prepared to discuss your answers with the class