Guest guest Posted July 14, 2002 Report Share Posted July 14, 2002 In a message dated 7/14/2002 11:28:04 PM Central Daylight Time, winniebear@... writes: > Thanks for any help you can give me! > Please share with the list, because I'm having problems too, although she's a new MT and not been MTing for 2 years. ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2002 Report Share Posted July 14, 2002 In a message dated 7/15/2002 12:46:30 AM Central Daylight Time, wink@... writes: > " two snaps up " > For some reason, and maybe just because I'm hungry, you are starting to remind me of Emeril. lol ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2002 Report Share Posted July 14, 2002 I say a good ol' spanking never hurt anyone! : ) Re: Fw: errors In a message dated 7/14/2002 11:28:04 PM Central Daylight Time, winniebear@... writes: > Thanks for any help you can give me! > Please share with the list, because I'm having problems too, although she's a new MT and not been MTing for 2 years. ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2002 Report Share Posted July 14, 2002 THANK YOU FOR THE " GIGGLE " I really needed that at this late hour! he he ! " two snaps up " Lori Re: Fw: errors > > > In a message dated 7/14/2002 11:28:04 PM Central Daylight Time, > winniebear@... writes: > > > > Thanks for any help you can give me! > > > > Please share with the list, because I'm having problems too, although she's a > new MT and not been MTing for 2 years. > > ~ > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2002 Report Share Posted July 15, 2002 He he, too funny. Yep, your hungry! ; ) Love this group!!!!!!!!!! ; ) Re: Fw: errors > In a message dated 7/15/2002 12:46:30 AM Central Daylight Time, > wink@... writes: > > > > " two snaps up " > > > > For some reason, and maybe just because I'm hungry, you are starting to > remind me of Emeril. > > lol > > ~ > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2002 Report Share Posted July 15, 2002 I'm having a problem with an IC who's working for me who is making way too many errors (after more than two years) and isn't proof reading her work before turning it in for printing. I would like to use an incentive program. I read an article on this but can't find it. It was an idea of using a point system where medical type of errors were higher than English type of errors. Then the points were added up and a percentage was figured out according to how many lines were involved. Over a certain percentage would mean that the person was docked cents per line. I'm not sure how to figure accuracy on a percentage basis to do this. Does anyone have any ideas on this? I would like to base documents on a certain percentage accuracy basis. But I would like to give more money per line if a certain accuracy basis was established per document, rather than taking money away. Does anyone have any thoughts on this or any ideas of how to implement this? The math would be very informative to me! Thanks for any help you can give me! Winnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2002 Report Share Posted July 15, 2002 errors I'm having a problem with an IC who's working for me who is making way too many errors (after more than two years) and isn't proof reading her work before turning it in for printing. I would like to use an incentive program. I read an article on this but can't find it. It was an idea of using a point system where medical type of errors were higher than English type of errors. Then the points were added up and a percentage was figured out according to how many lines were involved. Over a certain percentage would mean that the person was docked cents per line. I'm not sure how to figure accuracy on a percentage basis to do this. Does anyone have any ideas on this? I would like to base documents on a certain percentage accuracy basis. But I would like to give more money per line if a certain accuracy basis was established per document, rather than taking money away. Does anyone have any thoughts on this or any ideas of how to implement this? The math would be very informative to me! Thanks for any help you can give me! Winnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2002 Report Share Posted July 15, 2002 Just my opinion, but I don't like the idea of pay deducts for poor job performance, though I think incentive bonuses are good. I believe a couple of things hold true here: 1. In terms of human psychology, positive reinforcement is more effective than negative reinforcement. I remember reading " The One-Minute Manager " back in, oh, I guess the 80s? Anyway, it was a very hot management book at the time. The one thing I remember from the book is the manager who was always hiding and spying on employees. The employees got really freaked over this. Turns out he was trying to catch someone doing something " right " so he could jump out and give them kudos. *g* 2. After two years with poor job performance, you should consider terminating the person. 3. A " de-motion " is fine if warranted. That's different than pay deducts for errors, IMHO. I think people should be given feedback and even warnings. They should have clear goals and a clear time period in which to reach them. But, gee, after two years, I'd certainly expect very, very good work. p.s. The only company I know of that does what you mention is Edix. If you are still interested, I'm almost positive I saw a really good explanation of this on the MT Daily " By Company " board. Look in the archives. It will take some searching, but someone posted a very good explanation of it. It was about, hmmmm...about a month ago I think. p.s.s. If you can figure out which incognito poster is " JanTranscribes, " she can tell you. She works for Edix. Fw: errors > > I'm having a problem with an IC who's working for me who is making way too many errors (after more than two years) and isn't proof reading her work before turning it in for printing. I would like to use an incentive program. I read an article on this but can't find it. It was an idea of using a point system where medical type of errors were higher than English type of errors. Then the points were added up and a percentage was figured out according to how many lines were involved. Over a certain percentage would mean that the person was docked cents per line. I'm not sure how to figure accuracy on a percentage basis to do this. Does anyone have any ideas on this? I would like to base documents on a certain percentage accuracy basis. But I would like to give more money per line if a certain accuracy basis was established per document, rather than taking money away. Does anyone have any thoughts on this or any ideas of how to implement this? The math would be very in! > formative to me! Thanks for any help you can give me! > Winnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2002 Report Share Posted July 15, 2002 Personally, I would do something a little more positive than docking pay for errors. Maybe if you counted the number of clinics/days/lines/etc. that the employee had NO errors and then added a little something to their paycheck, that would be better. Unless, of course, you believe that this employee would respond better to negative reinforcement (which I have run across in the past). As far as a " formula " for error percentage, that's a toughie. You can't really do a character/line count before and after because if the correction is the same number of characters as the error, it wouldn't do any good to count it because there wouldn't be a difference. However, if you kept track of every change you made (by number, not by character - perhaps by tick marks on a piece of paper or something), and then took that number and divided by the number of lines in the document, to get a percentage of that ... ? Maybe then you could deduct __% from their pay. I'm not sure - maybe someone else has a better idea. Another option would be to let him/her know that you charge $___ per hour for editing/proofing, and that you will deduct this amount from their total pay if you have to correct anything on their work. This might just light a fire under them and force them to proof their own stuff. Do you send the corrections back to them so they will know what was wrong in the future? Do they have decent dictionary/spellchecker/word books/etc.? I was just wondering if maybe they just " didn't know, " although after two years, I can't see how that would be. If that doesn't help, I would let him/her know that you will no longer give that particular work to that employee anymore. Pretty soon, if that employee doesn't have any work to do, he/she might get the hint. Of course, like I said before - a good spanking never hurt either! (You may want to check your state law on this, though). : ) Jen errors I'm having a problem with an IC who's working for me who is making way too many errors (after more than two years) and isn't proof reading her work before turning it in for printing. I would like to use an incentive program. I read an article on this but can't find it. It was an idea of using a point system where medical type of errors were higher than English type of errors. Then the points were added up and a percentage was figured out according to how many lines were involved. Over a certain percentage would mean that the person was docked cents per line. I'm not sure how to figure accuracy on a percentage basis to do this. Does anyone have any ideas on this? I would like to base documents on a certain percentage accuracy basis. But I would like to give more money per line if a certain accuracy basis was established per document, rather than taking money away. Does anyone have any thoughts on this or any ideas of how to implement this? The math would be very informative to me! Thanks for any help you can give me! Winnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 16, 2002 Report Share Posted July 16, 2002 From original question: <snip> But I would like to give more money per line if a certain accuracy basis was established per document, rather than taking money away. ) ----Original Message Follows---- To: " nmtc " <nmtc >, " WinnieBear " Subject: Re: errors Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:32:56 -0400 Personally, I would do something a little more positive than docking pay for errors. Maybe if you counted the number of clinics/days/lines/etc. that the employee had NO errors and then added a little something to their paycheck, that would be better. Unless, of course, you believe that this employee would respond better to negative reinforcement (which I have run across in the past). As far as a " formula " for error percentage, that's a toughie. You can't really do a character/line count before and after because if the correction is the same number of characters as the error, it wouldn't do any good to count it because there wouldn't be a difference. However, if you kept track of every change you made (by number, not by character - perhaps by tick marks on a piece of paper or something), and then took that number and divided by the number of lines in the document, to get a percentage of that .... ? Maybe then you could deduct __% from their pay. I'm not sure - maybe someone else has a better idea. Another option would be to let him/her know that you charge $___ per hour for editing/proofing, and that you will deduct this amount from their total pay if you have to correct anything on their work. This might just light a fire under them and force them to proof their own stuff. Do you send the corrections back to them so they will know what was wrong in the future? Do they have decent dictionary/spellchecker/word books/etc.? I was just wondering if maybe they just " didn't know, " although after two years, I can't see how that would be. If that doesn't help, I would let him/her know that you will no longer give that particular work to that employee anymore. Pretty soon, if that employee doesn't have any work to do, he/she might get the hint. Of course, like I said before - a good spanking never hurt either! (You may want to check your state law on this, though). : ) Jen errors I'm having a problem with an IC who's working for me who is making way too many errors (after more than two years) and isn't proof reading her work before turning it in for printing. I would like to use an incentive program. I read an article on this but can't find it. It was an idea of using a point system where medical type of errors were higher than English type of errors. Then the points were added up and a percentage was figured out according to how many lines were involved. Over a certain percentage would mean that the person was docked cents per line. I'm not sure how to figure accuracy on a percentage basis to do this. Does anyone have any ideas on this? I would like to base documents on a certain percentage accuracy basis. But I would like to give more money per line if a certain accuracy basis was established per document, rather than taking money away. Does anyone have any thoughts on this or any ideas of how to implement this? The math would be very informative to me! Thanks for any help you can give me! Winnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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