A Faculty Merit Pay Allocation Model

Merit review processes within academic departments usually consist of two parts: a performance review and evaluation step and a monetary calculation step. Of the two, the performance review step is clearly the more important in achieving fairness and equity. However, the monetary calculation step al...

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Published inResearch in higher education Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 195 - 207
Main Authors Wenger, Robert B., Girard, Dennis M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Human Sciences Press, Inc 01.04.2000
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Academic departments
Applied sciences
College Faculty
Compensation (Remuneration)
Computation
Educational research
Faculty Evaluation
Fairness
Fall lines
Higher Education
Linear transformations
Mathematical constants
Mathematical Models
Merit increases
Merit Pay
Merit Rating
Pay for performance
Performance evaluation
Personnel Policy
Salary
Teacher Salaries
Weighted averages
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Summary:Merit review processes within academic departments usually consist of two parts: a performance review and evaluation step and a monetary calculation step. Of the two, the performance review step is clearly the more important in achieving fairness and equity. However, the monetary calculation step also plays a key role in maintaining the integrity of the overall process. In an attempt to address the issue of salary compression, the principle used by most departments in allocating merit pay is to award comparable percentage increases in salary to faculty members with similar merit ratings. A merit pay allocation model based on this principle is presented in this paper. The model, a major generalization of an earlier one presented by Camp, Gibbs, and Masters (1988), enables users to calculate merit pay amounts for individual faculty members in a systematic and efficient manner. It is also sufficiently flexible to allow for the incorporation of policy directives often contained in pay packages.
ISSN:0361-0365
1573-188X
DOI:10.1023/A:1007043221237