Chapter $14$ Case $$ Management at Work $-$ The Law of Cheating p$.421-423$

Fundamentals of Management $10$th edition by Ricky Griffin

$1.$ What about you? Put yourself in the position of the Atlanta educators whose dilemma is described in the case. If there was a real possibility that you$$d lose your job because your students performed badly, how would assess your situation and your options? What if there were a real possibility that you$$d lose a pay raise and promotion? How about the possibility that you$$d be reassigned to a much less desirable school? Be prepared to argue either side of your case.

$2.$ Think about a class that you$$re taking now or have taken in the past. What KPI played the most important role in the instructor$$s evaluation of your performance? What did it tell you about your instructor$$s strategy for teaching the course? Do you think that it was too narrowly focused or otherwise unreasonable? If so$,$ how do you think your instructor could have improved his performance$-$evaluation strategy?

$3.$ Again, what about you? After having read this case, have you reconsidered your attitude toward how much control or accountability you$$d like to have in a job? If$,$ for example, you$$re studying to be a teacher, how do you feel about a career goal such as moving up to principal or even multi$-$school administrator? How does your concept of an ideal work$/$life relationship affect your thinking on the subject?

$4.$ As we saw in Chapter $13,$ incentives $$represent special compensation opportunities that are usually tied to performance$$that is$,$ to a certain form of workplace behavior. They can also be tied to other forms of work$-$place behavior$$such as complying with an employer$$s policies regarding legal and ethical conduct $($its so$-$called compliance and ethics, or C&E$,$ program$).$ Incentives can be either $$soft$($consisting of nontangible encouragement or recognition$)$ or $$hard$($typically consisting of tangible$,$ often monetary rewards$).$ What $$C&E$$ incentives affect the way you conduct yourself, whether at work or at school? How do they stack up against the incentives to behave in accord with Campbell$$s Law? Is there any tension between the two sets of incentives? What do you do$$or can you do$$to resolve any tension as you make decisions affecting your behavior?