ADM 3337 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Tacit Knowledge, Workflow, Cost Accounting

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 3337
• Professor: Katie Curran

Document Summary

Employees are told they must go beyond the tasks specified in their job descriptions, must think more on the job, and take personal responsibility for their results. Pay systems that support continuous learning and improvement, flexibility, participation, and partnership are essential to achieving competitive advantage. Points out the similarities in the logic underlying job-based and people-based approaches. Determine what is of value to the organization. Usually applied to blue-collar work and competency-based plans to white-collar work. Skill-based pay structure: link pay to the depth or breadth of the skills, abilities, and knowledge a person acquires that are relevant to the work. Pay is based on the knowledge of the individual doing the job (measured by the number of university credits and years of teaching experience) rather than on job content or output (performance of students) The presumption is that teachers with more knowledge are more effective and more flexible able to teach many grades.