In reply to Meredith Conder.

Dr. Deming (1984) identified the 3rd deadly disease of management as - Annual Performance Appraisals (management by objective, management by fear) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehMAwIHGN0Y - it's NOT about individual performance.

Here's a comment from Jon Husband on a blog post of mine; Let's talk about work:

"Here’s just one relatively obvious example. Job evaluation methods (the ‘measurement’ of the size, weight, importance of a job) derives directly from, and reinforces fundamental Taylorist hierarchy. How we look at and ‘measure” jobs should change, and perhaps quite a bit, in an interconnected and networked environment.

BUT … there is a federal law (in the USA, Canada and I think most if not all western European countries) mandating Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value. Guess what establishes ‘equal value” ? And what’s more, the generic job measurement factors contained in every job evaluation method (Skill, Effort, Responsibility and Working Conditions) are directly cited / referred to in the EPWEV legislation.

The HR world and HR management methods are almost entirely comprised of pre-network core assumptions about work, how it’s done, how it’s managed and why / how people are motivated to work."

Lastly, I would recommend Dan Pink's video on what motivates people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc