Rewards will worsen attendance
North Lincolnshire Council is to consider rewarding staff for good attendance and it won’t help a bit. In fact it will make things worse. If you read the agenda for the 9th June 2010 cabinet that will be held this coming Wednesday, you will see it is full of things like “implement check list”, “targets [...]
Total Recall: The Toyota Story
I just watched the BBC2 Money Programme episode about the recent problems for Toyota, which you can now watch on iPlayer (though readers not in the UK may not be able to see this). It seems it will be repeated on 31st March 2010. The programme described the current travails of Toyota, telling of the [...]
Targets are all SMART, let’s make measures VVAPID
For many years I have been told that targets should be SMART. This means they should be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timed. Well actually, all targets are already SMART: SimplisticMeaninglessArbitraryRoad blocksTorture Simplistic Targets are simplistic. Targets are a sledgehammer to crack a nut and they come with no context or method. Targets are imposed [...]
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