I attended the Massachusetts Municipal Association’s annual convention at the Hynes Convention Center this past Friday and Saturday, and learned at least five excellent things that Medfield should look to implement. I will relate them this week as I am able.
The first idea is to institute a system of merit pay for the town’s employees. Performance based compensation, or merit pay, was the topic of the Massachusetts Selectman’s Association’s Annual Meeting held at the Hynes Convention Center on 1/21/12.
Towns that are already using it include Andover, Natick, and Danvers – Natick has been using it for years. The presenters opined that there was no perfect system, and that one should just pick one and get going with it.
It boils down to asking
- what do we expect?
- how did you do?
- how will we reward you?
I have attached the materials that were handed out.
Click to access 20120121-msa-annual-meeting-performance-based-compensation.pdf
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