Re: Performance Management in a Learning Organization

Nancy Dixon (dixonn@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu)
Sun, 1 Jan 1995 16:23:46 -0500 (EST)

I think the ideas in Peter Block's book Stewardship are useful in
thinking about ways to reward people that are more in keeping with
learning organizations. He suggests uncoupling pay and performance;
uncoupling pay and development. Appraisals are most usefully accomplished
by the customer of individual or group, not their boss. He devotes
several chapters in the book to a full explication of these ideas.

Nancy Dixon <dixonn@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>

On Sun, 1 Jan 1995 sauer%smtpgate@fourhcouncil.edu wrote:

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> Hi!
> I am now to this learning organization group. Our organization, a
> non-profit of 170 people, launched in a journey early in 1994 to
> becomg a learning organization. We have changed our structure and
> our culture -- and are organized around entrepreneurial
> cross-functional teams. We have very open communications with
> networked e-mail and no closed administrative meetings. We
> transformed to a fundamentally new purpose and mission to define our
> focus and role in partnering with 4-H, a pubic youth development
> program that is part of the Cooperative Extension System in this
> country.
> We now find ourselves needing to develop a transformed system for
> dealing with performance management and rewarding associates for
> achieving team and organizational goals. The old approach of annual
> goal-setting and performance appraisal just no longer works -- and
> lack of a transformed system is making our most visionary and
> transformed associates very impatient.
> Any suggestions out there on this first day of 1995?
> Dick Sauer
> Richard J. Sauer
> President & CEO
> National 4-H Council
> 7100 Connecticut Ave.
> Chevy Chase, MD 20815
> Phone: (301) 961-2820
> FAX: (301) 961-2894
> Internet:sauer%smtpgate@fourhcouncil.edu
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