Performance Measurement and Reward Systems
Part One. Thirty Points. Use the scenario below to answer the following.
1. 3 points. Identify the problem? Provide a brief summary to justify your conclusion.
2. 2 points. What is the desired performance?
3. 10 points. What performance and reward program(s) would you recommend to improve the situation and enforce the most effective behavior(s),
If you were the manager of the department responsible for the delivery of mail at UC Berkeley?
If you were responsible for performance management at UC Berkeley?
4. 10 points. As part of the scenario go to (http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/forms/perfev1.doc) to see the performance appraisal form currently being used at the school to appraise performance.
A. Critique the form.
B. Give five items that you would have appear on the revised form (based on your critique above) that would address the performance issues in the scenario.
5. A. 3 points. Are there any ethical lapses? If so, identify it/them.
B. 2 points. What would you do if you were in the organization where it/they occurred, from a performance management and rewards perspective?
Missed Pickup Means 30 College Students Lose Chance at Fellowship
BERKELEY, Calif. — A missed courier pickup, an honest clerk and an unyielding federal bureaucracy have conspired to deny 30 college students here the chance to compete for a prestigious Fulbright research grant.
The students, all enrolled in doctoral studies, got the news on Tuesday night from the university’s chancellor, Robert M. Berdahl, that their applications were disqualified because they were late. Dr. Berdahl had earlier flown to Washington in a failed bid to persuade education officials in the Bush administration to change their minds. “For these students to lose out on the opportunity to compete for the Fulbright award in this way is outrageous,” Dr. Berdahl said. “No one could have imagined the Department of Education could have reacted the way it did.”
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