Brain Fury wrote:You don't incentivise (I assume you mean pay extra money) people to achieve a minimum acceptable standard.
How can an average workrate ever be a minimum acceptable standard?
That makes no sense at all.
If we assume that they cull/relocate pickers who don't achieve this workrate the only pickers you have left are either working at average or above which means your average workrate has just gone up and those who were working at the old average are now below the new average and have to be culled and so the cycle continues until you have 1 picker left.
Brain Fury wrote:You don't incentivise (I assume you mean pay extra money) people to achieve a minimum acceptable standard.
How can an average workrate ever be a minimum acceptable standard?
That makes no sense at all.
If we assume that they cull/relocate pickers who don't achieve this workrate the only pickers you have left are either working at average or above which means your average workrate has just gone up and those who were working at the old average are now below the new average and have to be culled and so the cycle continues until you have 1 picker left.
For this to be possible everyone would need to be working at the minimum which would never happen.
Brain Fury wrote:You don't incentivise (I assume you mean pay extra money) people to achieve a minimum acceptable standard.
How can an average workrate ever be a minimum acceptable standard?
That makes no sense at all.
If we assume that they cull/relocate pickers who don't achieve this workrate the only pickers you have left are either working at average or above which means your average workrate has just gone up and those who were working at the old average are now below the new average and have to be culled and so the cycle continues until you have 1 picker left.
If the minimum standard is the average. Is that what Amazon do? I don't know. As I said, when I worked in a warehouse the minimum standard was 90% of the average.
I'm not saying Amazon are brilliant,but just remember it's Panorama and they can make any firm look good or bad,that distance tracker they gave the young lad is it any different to the apps that we use that say we walk 12 or more miles in a day,what about the shock to the system it was we we first started delivery.Also agency workers always get the worst jobs whatever they do,we didn't see what breaks the lad got or they might have a highly subsidised canteen and really good meals.Just take these programmes with a pinch of salt.
Brain Fury wrote:You don't incentivise (I assume you mean pay extra money) people to achieve a minimum acceptable standard.
How can an average workrate ever be a minimum acceptable standard?
That makes no sense at all.
If we assume that they cull/relocate pickers who don't achieve this workrate the only pickers you have left are either working at average or above which means your average workrate has just gone up and those who were working at the old average are now below the new average and have to be culled and so the cycle continues until you have 1 picker left.
If the minimum standard is the average. Is that what Amazon do? I don't know. As I said, when I worked in a warehouse the minimum standard was 90% of the average.
This is a similar problem with that which exists with RMs forced normal distribution for marking their managers. Assuming you are successful in to offloading the poor performers (ie those that do not achieve the 90%, or in RM's case the bottom 10%) you automatically raise the average or in RM's case artificially skew the normal distribution and lose all objectivity.
Brain Fury wrote:You don't incentivise (I assume you mean pay extra money) people to achieve a minimum acceptable standard.
How can an average workrate ever be a minimum acceptable standard?
That makes no sense at all.
If we assume that they cull/relocate pickers who don't achieve this workrate the only pickers you have left are either working at average or above which means your average workrate has just gone up and those who were working at the old average are now below the new average and have to be culled and so the cycle continues until you have 1 picker left.
If the minimum standard is the average. Is that what Amazon do? I don't know. As I said, when I worked in a warehouse the minimum standard was 90% of the average.
This is a similar problem with that which exists with RMs forced normal distribution for marking their managers. Assuming you are successful in to offloading the poor performers (ie those that do not achieve the 90%, or in RM's case the bottom 10%) you automatically raise the average or in RM's case artificially skew the normal distribution and lose all objectivity.
I believe it was an idea imported from McKinseys consultants although afaik it was never used that way in RM. Anyway they don't have forced distribution now.