Chapter 1, Holistic Assessment Case
Can the U.S. Succeed With Rewarding Rugged Individuality?
Individual effort and entrepreneurship have been the historical foundation for business success in the U.S. Recent shifts toward team models have led management to reassess reward systems that focus on individual recognition and to consider rewards that are based on team performance. While some defend team incentive plans, others fear that removing individual incentive will lead to mediocrity.
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Effective Rewards and Incentives for your Team
- How would you respond to those with concerns about loss of individual incentive? Argue for or against the increased emphasis on team reward, using either personal examples or examples from business.
- Structure a reward system that would recognize both individual and team performance. You may use an organization of your choice to illustrate.
- Select a specific corporation or nation that has implemented the team model. Describe the transition away from a hierarchical structure and the consequences that have resulted from the shift, both positive and negative.
Holistic Assessment Writing Tip
Activity 1: How would you respond to those with concerns about loss of individual incentive? Argue for or against the increased emphasis on team reward, using either personal examples or examples from business.
Various standardized testsuse holistic grading to establish scoring of a writing sample. Rather than counting errors, a writing sample is judgedholistically for its overall strengths and weaknesses. For the SAT, GRE, and GMAT, the Analytical Writing section is scored using a six-point holistic scale in half-point increments.The GMAT requires you to write two essays in 30 minutes each: the Analysis of an Issue and the Analysis of an Argument. The Analysis of an Issue essay tests your ability to communicate your opinion on an issue effectively and persuasively. Your task is to analyze the issue presented, considering various perspectives, and to develop your own position on the issue. There is no "correct" answer. In the Analysis of an Argument essay, you will are presented with a formal argument composed of premises and conclusions with which you must agree or disagree. You might evaluate arguments based upon basic principles of market economics and business and entrepreneurship; or upon education, lifestyle, or health topics. This activity requires you to write an Analysis of an Argument. Since the Analysis of an Argument is the stricter of the two essays, including personal experiences in this essay is discouraged. Your essay should stick very closely to the logic.