ERIC Number: ED270181
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986-Apr
Pages: 10
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Merit Pay: A Plan That Works.
McKay, John R.
An overview is provided of Sumter Area Technical College's (SATC's) successful faculty evaluation and merit pay plan. Following introductory material on SATC, a discussion is presented of the reasoning behind resistance to efforts to tie faculty evaluation to merit pay. Next, SATC's evaluation system is set in the context of the college's overall emphasis on excellence program, which involves ongoing program and personnel evaluation, recognition of outstanding achievement, and faculty and staff development. The next section presents a description of SATC's faculty evaluation system, contrasting the evaluation program that was initiated in 1978 and utilized a personality inventory coupled with self-evaluation with the revised system that was implemented in 1981. The three components of the revised system (i.e., the job description, the individual action plan, and the college plan) are explained. The next section describes various aspects of the merit pay system which supports evaluation, focusing on: (1) four types of salary increases usually utilized by two-year colleges; (2) seven steps essential to implementing a merit pay plan (i.e., planning; judgments of faculty performance; development of explicit criteria about what good teaching is; open, continuous communication between faculty and administration; an adequate budget; continuous monitoring and refinement of the evaluation system; and accountability); (3) problems encountered by SATC with the approach; (4) advantages of the evaluation and merit pay system; (5) decisions to be made in the initial planning of such a system; and (6) the division of money in SATC's system. (RO)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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