You have hit upon a dirty little secret -- which hopefully will up-end a whole mess of apple carts. The connection between performance and compensation is, at best, tenuous. At the moment, the consequences of radical change are so awesome that most folks don't even want to think about it. Even those who are short-changed in the system! I think it could be argued that the core of our compensation systems is control and the perception of control. Look at the usual employee evaluation form and it is really all about control. Usual questions include -- How many folks do you control? How well do you do it? And How long have you done it? If the answer to those questions is A lot, for long time, and Very tightly -- you get a big wad of cash and the corner office. On the other hand if you are out of control, you are out of a job. Of course, the dirty secret is -- nobody is in control, at least in the way we have talked and thought about it. The emperor is not only naked; he/she is not in charge. That could be a shattering recognition.
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 9:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: devolving responsibility Hi Everyone, How far can leadership / responsibility be devolved before the lesser-paid begin to ask "Hey, I'm basically doing my boss's job, so how come he's paid more than me?" This is an attitude I'm coming across, particularly in larger organisations, ususally bureaucratic-style too. And I'm asking the list because, as future-creators, maybe you've dealt with this somewhere already. Maybe it only occurs in 'toxic' organisations, but as we modify the invisible glue that holds organisations together, what stops them from coming unstuck altogether? Lex * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
