Vexcalibur wrote:
Purely hypothetical. You are the guy who pays the checks at some company. The salaries of three employees depend on you.
Employee A: Spends far less time at work than B and C, but it turns out the result of his work has the top quality by an objectively measurable metric.
Employee B: Works overtime, but it turns out the result of his work has the worst quality. Although the quality is acceptable, A and C did a better job.
Employee C: Mediocre quality and time spent.
My answer is give the raise at random.
I need more information to go on. Are they all honest?
if yes, I would give everyone a raise: A for quality of work; B for effort put in; C for dependability (assuming C is simply an average person and not unmotivated). All of these characteristics are important, and rarely to be found in the same person. Thus, those traits should be rewarded individually.
Also I find results of poll interesting as overwhelmingly we tend to overlook "staying busy" or appearance of hard work, which seems to be important in a lot of work places and effects outcome none - it's purely a farce. I think time spent working is irrelevant, but effort matters.
If an employee has a fixed amount of work to be done and gets it done in 6 hrs instead of 8, the employee should have the extra 2 hrs to do nothing, go home early, take extra breaks, work at a more leisurely pace, or whatever, with no requirement to put on some kind of act that they are working the whole day.
if person A actually put in a full work day and not only produced stellar work but more of it than other employees, the raise would go to A.
17 May 2011, 2:36 am
