The Merit of a Points-based Merit System at the Edwards School of Business Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

The case highlights the importance of recent developments on the implementation of collective bargaining based pay results in a Canadian business school is currently in the process of accreditation of AACSB, Edwards School of Business at the University of Saskatchewan. It is written from the perspective of a new faculty member who is engaged in the decision-making process related to the development point system, designed to highlight the merit pay. This process causes it to assess whether it is structuring the distribution of its work, which is directly related to its motivation to coaching student competition team event. Edwards historically used solutions approach to the distribution of credit. Case, the rationale used in the construction of new points-based system discusses the potential advantages and disadvantages, and highlights the different perspectives of stakeholders throughout the process, including the union, teachers and senior administration of the university, college and department levels. Union opposes deserve so stated quite strict criteria for the award of merit in the new collective bargaining agreement. Faculty opinion is mixed around merit in general, and the implementation of a system of points against a decision based on a system in particular. The senior administration of the University is committed to the continuation of the credit system in the university as a tool to reward outstanding performance and retain star faculty. Individual units at Edwards in the midst of revision of standards and procedures for the allocation of merit-based pay. The protagonist is not sure that her department will continue the development and distribution points, and this will result in its redistribution of its tasks. "Hide
by Dionne Pohler Source: Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation 16 pages. Publication Date: December 22, 2011. Prod. #: W11603-PDF-ENG

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