Quotations from:
     The TEAM Handbook for Educators
     1994 by Joiner Associates Inc.
     3800 Regent Street
     P.O. Box 5445
     Madison, WI 53705-0445
     1-800-669-8326
 
"12. (a)Remove barriers that rob the hourly worker of his right to
pride of workmanship.  The responsibility of supervisors must be 
changed from sheer numbers to quality.  (b)Remove barriers that
rob people in management and in engineering of their right to 
pride of workmanship.  This means, inter alia, abolishment of the
annual or merit rating and of management by objective.
 
For Educators:
 
*Administrators and educators, who believe they can motivate the
unmotivated are deluding themselves, Motivation starts within each
of us, but we learn demotivation from others.  Administrators and 
educators must ask what they may be doing to demotivate their staff.
*To be proud of one's work is a source of self-motivation.  But
when people are placed in a situation where they compete with their 
peers for recognition and merit pay, great harm to individuals and the 
organization results.  Colleagues and teammates become rivals.  The
appearance of accomplishment supersedes true accomplishments.  
Instead of how people feel about themselves and their work, they are
told that the judgement of others is what counts.  Instead of all of
us working together for the good of the whole, each of us works 
individually for the good of him or herself.  Pride of work is
destroyed.
*School boards and administrators of educational systems should 
ask staff and teachers in their organizations, "In order to do a good 
job, what do you need from us that you're not getting" and "What 
are you getting from us that you don't need?" Pg 2-7
--- Maximus 2.02
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