I’ve worked for the Gainesville Sun Newspaper for the past 20 years and over that time, I have seen the culture shift and change only slightly during that time. Some of the reasons for that change include transfer of ownership, the changing of Publishers, and from a reevaluation of our mission. As of present, The Gatehouse Media Group owns our paper and our mission and values have stay roughly the same since the last owner and I attribute that to the industry in which we are operating. Our mission to “deliver high quality and trusted journalism, products and services that enrich the communities we serve — our readers, commercial partners, employees and investors” http://www.gatehousemedia.com/about-us/ . The three levels of our culture, …show more content…
The Motivation Process Although motivation and reward process at the Gainesville Sun differs for department to department as one might imagine, the managers for each of the profit centers are allowed to determine both at their discretion. Furthermore, the employees for each department are also included in this process. There is a MBO, management by objective, structure designed by each department head that is strictly adhered to in order to determine the bonuses rewarded for performance. Upper management is aware of the constraints of the MBO’s, but do not interfere with the creation and administrating thereof. I think because our processes each day can be uncertain and because of the way the company has structures the authority and influence, having the motivation process aligned with the profit centers is best. If motivation was centralized and more hierarchal, I think they would be out of touch with not only the ways to motivate people, but also the underlying processes that drive those motivations. Most of the employees at the Gainesville Sun enjoy a great degree of autonomy, but also take a large amount of risk. Stories must be written on the go and press decisions are made in the early hours, under intense, deadline pressure and if the motivations came from high up without the middle manager’s involvement, they would be
A Performance-Based Pay system is an increasingly popular compensation method used by organizations to increase productivity. A goal for all companies is to try and remain competitive and control costs, this is a reason for performance-based pay systems becoming more popular. This type of system attempts to link compensation to performance. (Gena Richter, 2002) These systems are directly tied to organization or individual performance and are most effective when based on objective measures of quantity or quality of performance. If we wish to have a direct impact on work motivation, it must be linked directly to the performance of desired behaviors. In order for to put this type of system into place, performance evaluations must be conducted regularly , as well as training and development for those with performance that isn't quite up to par. These additional resources will be necessary for our organization if we implement a performance based pay system. (William B. Bernathy, Ph. D., 2004)
Officers of the Gainesville Police Department arrested a local woman on Monday for breaking into a neighbor’s home as well as damaging and stealing property.
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Summary: Commission based employment can appear to be a transparent reward structure based on success and is a common way to reward top performers. “Commission based pay can make the employee feels they are sharing in the organizations success which motivates the individual to maximize their success” (Clark, Robert, and Sylvester Schieber Fourth Quarter 2000). This compensation strategy allows employees to work hard and get further. The theory with harder work more pay will occur. The employee is paid based on how they perform or how much they sale. If they sale
The purpose for the organization Walgreens is to stay put in a dynamic, self-motivated and energetic business environment. Walgreens is a successful business looking to progress overall presentation and place the company for potential expansion. In order for this to follow through, a total rewards program needs to be created. The incentives and compensation plan must connect with the goals of the organization. A solid rewards program will build motivation in the work place. As the text states, “The notions that rewards are means to motivate employees assuming that the rewards are distributed fairly. Rewards seem to be part of many different perspectives in motivation
Have a one-on one meeting with the employees and leaders of the departments that are not meeting expectations to provide additional training, corrective actions, or otherwise work together with that particular team to develop a plan to improve, which would further empower the teams (Newstrom, 2015). For the teams who are meeting production goals in their department develop a rewards and recognition program so that the department or specific employees who have gone above and beyond could be recognized. This monthly awards and recognition program could replace the monthly financial bonus by providing another type of motivational and reward factor, which could be understood through the Equity Model, in which the employees would still see reward outcomes from their monthly inputs, in addition to the potential of a financial bonus (Newstrom,
If you or a loved one has been injured in the Tallahassee area, the attorney you select to handle your case will have a significant outcome on the amount of compensation you may be awarded. Unlike most law firms that are quick to accept settlement offers, the attorneys in our Tallahassee office prepare each case as if it was going to trial. We work with medical and economic experts who can estimate the cost of our clients’ losses, which may include medical bills and loss of earning capacity. This helps provide us with a figure that covers the amount our clients will need to readjust to life following an accident. While each case is different and damages will vary, our dedication to thorough preparation and
University of south Florida: (USF) The first independent state University located in the state of Florida. The University was established in 1956. The system of the University of South Florida has three institutions and is also is the home to 14 colleges. Adding, the institution offers majors for graduate and undergraduate students and they have a variety of programs where each student can choose the best option for them. Also the University has a big amount of students, the institution has an approximated of 50,000 students also, the institution is a big place that has 34 residences halls in the campus of Tampa available for the students who prefer to stay and make the life inside the campus. In fact, the colors that represent the University
One can get extremely frustrated driving from Fayetteville to Rogers these days. There is construction everywhere, causing delays, lane closures, and much havoc on our commutes to and from home, school, and work. If you take out the frustration, one can see the positives to the improvements. The road worker who has been out of work for months is now able to provide for his family, the drivers are getting an improvement to the neglected roads traveled daily, the state is making an investment in their infrastructure that will last for many years to come, and our economy is showing a sign of improvement! Investing time and money into our infrastructure benefits all of us and is a sign to our economic growth.
A well-articulated compensation philosophy drives organizational success by aligning pay and other rewards with business strategy. It provides the foundation for plan design and administration and anchors current and future plans to the company's culture and values (Kaplan, 2006, p.32). Recognizing and rewarding achievement is the cornerstone of the company A’s compensation philosophy. The mission of the company is to attract, select, place and promote all individuals based on their qualifications. The company believes that performance-based compensation helps attract, develop and retain talented professionals. In addition to base pay which based upon local market conditions and targeted to be above market, the company provides the following types of potential compensation to reward performance:
First, the reward should be valued. Reward will not provide motivation for higher performance if it had no value. According to different situation, the reward should be various for different level of staff. For example, an extra compensation package can be given annually to those valuable skilled physicians. It is a useful way to attract and retain good doctors, which will have a aggregation effect for those experienced personnel. These aggregation effect could increase the FSC performance and make a benefits to the organization effectively.
At the for profit college, the upper management is experiencing an issue with their employee’s morale. Because there are government regulations that do not allow for traditional sales bonuses be given to employees, they need to find a way to offer their employees, who do everything they can to get as many enrollments as possible (just like any other sales company), go without any type of incentive program. This paper will outline the project that upper management and executives have decided to use for an incentive program. This will help improve employee morale, enrollment and profit for the organization.
Reward Management (RM) has been defined as the distribution of monetary and non-monetary rewards to employees in an effort to align the interests of the employees, the organisation, and its shareholders (O’Neil, 1998). In addition O’Neil (1998) also suggests that a RM system can serve the purpose of attracting prospective job applicants, retaining valuable employees, motivating employees, ensuring legal requirements relating to direct and indirect rewards are not violated, assisting the company in achieving human resource and business objectives, and ultimately assisting the organisation in obtaining a competitive advantage.
Traditionally, the business performance of each regional manager is measured against a set profit plan, with Jacques rewarding his managers a fixed payout of 2% of corporate profits as a bonus. However, the organization is facing many business firsts, which when
Looking at the specific objectives, the maintain business strategy based on rewarding the best performer in the organization has been achieved in through the companies results as 100% bonus award was awarded to all the employees. the bonus pay to the employees is determined by the performance of the employees. It is very clear from the analysis that the workers have been motivated greatly to work extra hard in increasing sales thus enabling them achieve the bonus. The translation of this is that the employees are motivated by the though of a greater pay.