Theory Y here as well. I reward employees when the company does well and they’ve helped to get us here.
> On Oct 29, 2020, at 9:46 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am theory Y all the way. > > Sent from my iPhone > >>> On Oct 29, 2020, at 7:39 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >> I’m probably out of date since my experience as a manager in corporate >> America is from about 1980-2000. Back then pay was pretty much according to >> position, you qualified for a position requiring more skill or >> responsibility, you got a new title and a bigger paycheck. The only gerbils >> that required constant food pellets to keep running in the wheel were the >> salespeople. (Yes, there were merit reviews, but also something HR called >> “compa ratio” which applied negative feedback on raises if you were above >> midpoint for your grade, to the point where at 120% of midpoint you were >> capped out.) >> >> Maybe today all the employees need constant food pellets. >> >> I’ll bet there was a Dilbert strip about that, let me Google it. Yep: >> https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-01-25 >> >> I also seem to remember from the days of management flavor of the week there >> was Theory X and Theory Y. >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_Theory_Y >> >> >> From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson >> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2020 7:27 PM >> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT compensation >> >> I’m in the process of doing something very similar here shortly. >> >> Start pay a bit more for technical type positions so $18/hr and then up from >> there every few months with bonus for projects completed on time, or good >> customer facing reviews on work done etc. >> >> From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF >> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2020 5:16 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: Chuck McCown <[email protected]> >> Subject: [AFMUG] OT compensation >> >> I am considering telling all new interviewees that we start at $15/hour but >> they can make more quickly according to this schedule. And we also do COLA >> and Merit increases every 6 months. >> >> Love to have feedback on this idea. >> >> Please note my new email address: [email protected] >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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