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Pay-for-knowledge can increase productivity while providing workers with a more interesting and challenging work environment. Pay-for-knowledge compensates employees for adding value to the enterprise. Under a pay-for-knowledge system, workers receive [...]

Supervisors who are intent on establishing performance standards and setting goals for their workers can make use of a checklist developed and currently used by Corning Glass Co. The checklist was designed by Michael Beer and Robert Ruh in the early 1970s as a tool to aid supervisors in developmental sessions with workers, with supervisors taking on the function of assessors. However, the checklist can also be used for a supervisor's self-assessment, and it is for this purpose that the checklist is provided. Seventy-six desirable and undesirable behaviors classified into 19 groupings compose the checklist. These behaviors are divided into individual performance and supervisory performance headings. A six-point response scale is used to evaluate employee performance and work behavior. Ratings are used as the basis for determining employees' managerial capability and chances for promotion., At work, are you demonstrating behavior that will please your own supervisor and get you noticed? Or is your behavior likely to lead to a poor evaluation? As a supervisor [...]