Charles Kerr wrote of the Pratt and Whitney experience with tying pay to
learning:
" Launched last month with the help of a team of hourly workers, it will peg
future
pay boosts not to seniority, but to the amount of training employees complete
and the degree of responsibility they shoulder."
Charles, I agree with you that this type of system has great potential. I
have helped a number of organizations to design skill & knowledge-based
compensation systems and my experience has strengthened my conviction that
a Learning Organization must demonstrate that it values learning by paying
for it. Most traditional pay programs focus primarily on results achieved
and often fear that a shift toward paying for learning will cause results
to suffer. I have never seen this to be the case. As employees develop
new skills and knowledge, results inevitably improve.
--Roxanne Abbas 75263.3305@compuserve.com
Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>