What Am I Worth?

DeVry University

What Am I Worth? There is a balancing act that has to happen periodically in the work place in order for the employees to be happy and fairly compensated and for a business to stay afloat. In the application case: “Appraising the Secretaries at Sweetwater U” the balance was in danger of being tipped when the university realized that there was a bias that was occurring during annual job performance appraisals. Because these appraisals were directly tied to annual income raises, these biases proved to be very costly to the university since every appraisal led to a maximized income raise for every secretary at Sweetwater U. In this scenario, the secretaries at Sweetwater U were happy but the University’s budget was not. After newly appointed Vice President for administrative affairs Rob Winchester met with his experts at Sweetwater U, they presented him with two ideas that were viable ideas but in my opinion, insufficient. The first recommendation that Winchester’s experts gave was to change the rating form that was being used by the administrators to appraise their secretaries. The second idea that was presented to Vice President Winchester was to sever the tie which directly linked the secretaries’ rating forms to their annual income raises. One agreeable aspect to changing the rating form would allow an unbiased rating system to be developed so that the rating form would have some form of value with consideration to the individual secretary’s job performance. Since the original rating form was developed by a committee of secretaries ten years prior, it is highly questionable that all parties involved would be taken into consideration when it came to the fair rating and compensation of all the secretaries at Sweetwater U. The recommendation to sever the tied that directly linked the secretaries’ raises was