RE: RE: Exploitation is a two-way street (was a bunch of other thread s)

[Samuel -dot- Beard -at- tdcj -dot- state -dot- tx -dot- us]

Hey Gene,

<You wrote:>
BTW, just to add to my previous post, I don't think it's
proper for a manager to "ding" an employee who works the
minimum and does just enough to satisfy job requirements
and performance objectives.  If they work the required hours
and do the required work, they've done their job and earned
their salary.  It's when eval, incentive and promotion times
roll around and they find they get nothing extra for doing
nothing extra that their chickens come home to roost (not
to mention when it inevitably comes time to rank your people
and pick the ones at the bottom of the list for layoffs).
As a manager, it's up to you to make it abundantly clear
that incentives and advancement are not a default part of
compensation and that in order to get "bonus goodies" it's
necessary to put in "bonus effort," and then see to it that
those who do are rewarded consistent with their contribution
to the organization and not just hand out some std % to
everyone at bonus time.

<I respond:>
   Again, this can be a good and a bad thing. There are SOME people who
just put in the required 40 hours and go home that may have very valid
reasons for doing so. A single parent, for example. Just because a person
works with/for others doesn't mean that those others know enough details
about that persons life to say if they can or can't work over on a routine
basis. Many people don't feel comfortable enough with co-workers to let
them know so much about their personal lives to allow for making such a
decision. And if someone otherwise very worthy of keeping in a position
isn't simply because they haven't worked enough extra time over the
required amount because they very often weren't ABLE to do so because of
outside obligations, then that would not be a GOOD thing, IMHO.

Sam

Samuel I. Beard, Jr.
Technical Writer, Human Resources
Texas Department of Criminal Justice



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