Likewise, if you decide that continuos quality improvement makes sense, and that procurement cards are a tool to improve acquisition at your institution and the controller is violently opposed to your high risk organizational behavior. This new tool requires new thinking, not just old thinking wrapped up in a new tool kit. Yes, there will be some failures and disappointments, but human beings are amazing. After all we all are workers and we all want to do the right thing. The problems in the traditional system took years to build and longer to be acknowledged.
Leadership is less committed than ever to long term relationships.
Compensation systems are lurching towards variable pay for all of us because a global economy causes tremendous fluctuations in business cycles. If labor costs are minimized up front and workers participate in shared rewards for aggregate performance, our businesses will compete better. The issue for higher education is, we think we are exempt. We are competing for, National Merit Scholars, Athletes, Faculty, Endowments, and Contract and Grants. What is different is we aren t honest about how much competition there really is going on and vicious we are.