Imagine you have been hired by High Performance Gizmos, Inc. to assemble its A-1 Gizmo product. You are very excited because you have heard that the company is progressive and very supportive of its employees. You will receive all the training you need to perform your job before being assigned to a high-performance assembly team. Each team is responsible for meeting production goals that are monitored and rewarded by company management.
You report for training and meet Sally, your training coach. As part of the initial orientation process, you learn more about the company’s history and find that it recently underwent a complete corporate restructuring, including a radical shift in its human resources philosophy. In the past, it relied upon punishment (reprimands, docking of pay, and public humiliation) to motivate its employees to reach production goals. A consultant was hired when the company began to lose more and more market share, and he helped to implement a new Employee Actualization and Rewards (EAR) program that focuses on building employee self-esteem. You are among some of the first employees who will go through the new training, says Sally.
Thankful that you will reap the benefits of the new corporate philosophy, you begin the training program under Sally’s guidance. You are a star performer, amazed at how easily you carry out the tasks at hand. You and Sally have a great time together, working to assemble separate components of the A-1 Gizmo. There is a l...
Author: Terry Long
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