http://geniusone.com/blog/payback/ Since two decades author and leadership consultant Frank Kanu helps top managers and executives to improve success ratios and productivity. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:33:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://geniusone.com/blog/payback/#comment-2512 Rob In China Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:20:33 +0000 http://geniusone.com/blog/payback/#comment-2512 It might work. Giving employees to set their own scale of pay can be a great idea. This reminds me of back in high school where occasionally a teacher would be liberal enough to ask the students to grade themselves. The teacher usually says something like we should reflect seriously upon what kind of work we have put into the school year, and what we need improvement in. Then, when we grade ourselves, we should also be fair. Contrary to what most people think, students don't always give themselves As. It is a good exercise because it challenges our honesty, and we can do a thorough self-assessment of our work. Similarly, at a work place, if we get to select our own pay scale, it is not true that everyone will select the highest scale.
This reminds me of back in high school where occasionally a teacher would be liberal enough to ask the students to grade themselves. The teacher usually says something like we should reflect seriously upon what kind of work we have put into the school year, and what we need improvement in. Then, when we grade ourselves, we should also be fair.

Contrary to what most people think, students don’t always give themselves As. It is a good exercise because it challenges our honesty, and we can do a thorough self-assessment of our work. Similarly, at a work place, if we get to select our own pay scale, it is not true that everyone will select the highest scale.
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