Merit Pay for Teachers: A Poor Prescription for Reform

1984 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Moore Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Effective Teachers ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Merit Pay ◽  
Policy Analyst ◽  
Business World ◽  
Corporate World ◽  
Reform School ◽  
Group Goals ◽  
Motivational Needs

Many educators as well as business and governmental leaders argue that the improvement of schools depends primarily upon improving the performance of teachers. Merit pay, a solution drawn from the business world, promises to reward effective teachers and encourage them to work harder. From her perspective as both historian and policy analyst, Susan Moore Johnson explains that merit pay is neither a new nor an untested remedy. The speeches and programs of educational reformers of the 1920s and 1950s echo the current hopes for and arguments against merit pay. An analysis of the reasons for the failure of past merit pay plans suggests that present proposals would face similar technical, organizational, and financial obstacles. Asserting that merit pay takes into account neither the motivational needs of teachers nor the interdependent nature of schools, Johnson concludes that when looking to the corporate world for models of reform, school leaders should consider the practices of highly successful corporations which emphasize group goals over individual incentives.

Expanding Youth Professionals' Opportunities: The contribution that not-for-profit youth professionals can make in the corporate world

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-128
Author(s):  
Graeme Codrington
Keyword(s):  
Youth Culture ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Business World ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Corporate World ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Corporate Business

This paper aims to expose youth professionals to a number of opportunities within the corporate business world. This will enable youth professionals to self-fund their ministries, as well as gain credibility and experience in their area of expertise. The paper will outline the need that the corporate world has with regards to an understanding of today's youth culture, as well as provide specific guidelines for youth professionals who wish to pursue part-time (or full-time) consulting work in the corporate world. The paper specifically ignores theological and ethical issues such work may provoke.

Corporate Roles, Personal Virtues: An Aristotelean Approach to Business Ethics

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Concrete Case ◽  
Business World ◽  
Corporate World ◽  
Business Executives ◽  
Ethical Debate ◽  
Standard Curriculum ◽  
Introductory Textbooks

Each of us is ultimately lonely, In the end, it's up to each of us and each of us alone to figure out who we are and who we are not, and to act more or less consistently on those conclusions.–Tom Peters, “The Ethical Debate” Ethics Digest Dec 1989, p. 2.We are gratefully past that embarrassing period when the very title of a lecture on “business ethics” invited—no, required—those malapert responses, “sounds like an oxymoron” or “must be a very short lecture.” Today, business ethics is well-established not only in the standard curriculum in philosophy in most departments but, more impressively, it is recommended or required in most of the leading business schools in North America, and it is even catching on in Europe (one of the too rare instances of intellectual commerce in that direction). Studies in business ethics have now reached what Tom Donaldson has called “the third wave,” beyond the hurried-together and overly-philosophical introductory textbooks and collections of too-obvious concrete case studies, too serious engagement in the business world. Conferences filled half-and-half with business executives and academics are common, and in-depth studies based on immersion in the corporate world, e.g. Robert Jackall’s powerful Moral Mazes, have replaced more simple-minded and detached glosses on “capitalism” and “social responsibility.” Business ethics has moved beyond vulgar “business as poker” arguments to an arena where serious ethical theory is no longer out-of-place but seriously sought out and much in demand.

Same as It Ever Was

2019 ◽  
pp. 195-224
Author(s):  
Steven Conn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Business World ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Corporate World ◽  
The One

This chapter explores what has changed and what has stayed the same in business schools across the United States. On the one hand, the growth of the finance economy since the 1980s has meant that what goes on in business schools has aligned more perfectly with the corporate world than at any other time in the preceding century. Shareholder value became the mantra chanted in classrooms and boardrooms. On the other hand, business schools continue to evade the ethical issues raised in and by the business world, and they have avoided much by way of accountability for what they teach. The chapter then explains that two more things have changed over the last few decades. The first involves the erosion of the democratic impulse of American higher education. The second change is the growing influence of business-school thought on the way universities do their own business.

It’s a White Man’s World

2019 ◽  
pp. 119-154
Author(s):  
Steven Conn
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Private Enterprise ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Corporate America ◽  
Business World ◽  
Corporate World ◽  
The World

This chapter focuses on the question of who has, or has not, gotten access to business education. Periodically, at almost regular intervals, a study appears documenting that women and people of color remain woefully underrepresented in the corporate world, particularly in its upper echelons. Those numbers have not gone unnoticed, nor have they gone unremarked; explanations abound. The first most obvious of these is that the isms—sexism and racism—still predominate in the business world. Those attitudes play out in all sorts of ways, large and small, obvious and subtle, but all with the same result: women and African Americans continue to find corporate America a largely inhospitable place, a club largely closed to them. There has been less discussion, however, about the role business schools have and have not played in training women and people of color for the business world. As the chapter explores, business schools, certainly across much of the twentieth century, cared little and mostly did less to attract those kinds of students. By and large, the world inside collegiate business schools mirrored the world of private enterprise: almost entirely white, almost exclusively male.

Working Hard to Achieve Self-Defining Group Goals: A Social Identity Analysis

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 191-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly S. Fielding ◽  
Michael A. Hogg
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Group Norms ◽  
Identity Threat ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Group Goals ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Substantial Effort

Summary: A social identity model of effort exertion in groups is presented. In contrast to most traditional research on productivity and performance motivation, the model is assumed to apply to groups of all sizes and nature, and to all membership contingent norms that specify group behaviors and goals. It is proposed that group identification renders behavior group-normative and encourages people to behave in line with group norms. The effect should be strengthened among people who most need consensual identity validation from fellow members, and in intergroup contexts where there is inescapable identity threat from an outgroup. Together these processes should encourage people to exert substantial effort on behalf of their group.

Penilaian Kinerja Dosen Dengan Menggunakan Metode AHP Studi Kasus di STIE Ahmad Dahlan Jakarta

Liquidity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-109
Author(s):  
Ellya Sestri
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Pairwise Comparison ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Faculty Performance ◽  
Business World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Rule Out

An increasingly rapid technological progress in the era of globalization in the business world, so do not rule out the possibility that a decision-making is something that is very vital in determining the decisions to be taken in the face of competitive business world. Decision making can be influenced by several aspects, this can affect the speed of decision making by the decision maker in which decisions must be quick and accurate. Lecturer Performance Assessment Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process is a decision support system that aims to assess faculty performance according to certain criteria. This system of faculty performance appraisal criteria to map a hierarchy, where each hierarchy will be performed pairwise comparison, the pairwise comparisons between criteria, so to get a comparison of the relative importance of criteria with each other. The results of this comparison is then analyzed to obtain the priority of each criterion. Once completed and performed an assessment of alternative options to be compared and calculated to obtain the best alternatives according to established criteria.

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