Performance Mgmt & Rewards LO3349

TSJLM@aol.com
Sat, 21 Oct 1995 15:51:20 -0400

Replying to LO3291 -- was: Compensation Systems

Suggested heading: Performance Management and Reward Systems

I have also taken liberty to suggest another heading for this thread, for
purposes of an expanded conversation. [...I changed the heading... Your
host...]

While I was at SEMATECH, we invested almost 2 year in defining the
individual and team behaviors that support collaborative practices and the
value system of the organization, including key factors of the LO - we
published these in our SEMATECH Learning Resource Guide, which was
intended to help create common language around important individual and
team competencies as well as support and guide all forms of learning -
from skill based training to OJT, to self-directed development, to
exchange of lessons learned within and across teams. The models and
language were created from states of dialogue and conversation across the
organization - not just within the HR,. TQ, or Training Departments. We
invested a lot of effort to create a culture where performance was treated
as a partnership, and development meant more than teaching technical
skills for exclusive purposes of expanding organizational output.

I suggest you not be discouraged by your historical professional
investment in these systems - just expand the concepts and situations to
which these important models can apply - I have found that they can be
treated as tools to help take the LO principles out of the "black box" so
that all can fully participate.

I have seen a few renditions of organizational surveys emerge since the
5th Discipline - that help the organization actually measure some of the
observeable characteristics of the LO. Maybe a focus on particular
supporting competencies and behaviors via competency models would
accelerate our progress. If we cannot get our organizations to let go
FAST of the old basis of performance measurement - at the individual
level, at least there will be focus on the individual skills and
characteristics that build organizational learning and community.

--
Regards,
Judith McCrackin
THOUGHTSPACE, Inc.
TSJLM@aol.com