Playing Fair

Authors

  • Jane E. Barnes Meredith College

Keywords:

Annual performance, Athletic Director, coach preformance, performance review, alternative pay increase standard, case study

Abstract

The new Athletic Director at Southern State University has just instituted a new performance management system for the intercollegiate coaches that is based on setting mutual goals around objective measures, and 360-degree feedback from the athletes. The coach’s pay increase will be determined by whether he or she met the goals and the athletes’ satisfaction with the coach.

Scott Nowling, who has been the head soccer coach at SSU for ten years, has a meeting with the AD to discuss his performance for the past year. Scott has turned the soccer team around during his tenure, bringing it from the doormat of the conference to a top 25 national ranking; he is a highly motivational coach and his teams routinely have the highest GPA on campus. Scott is stunned to learn from his AD that his performance has been rated as “met expectations” and he would not receive any pay increase. Subsequent to the performance review, Scott learns that the positions of his administrative assistant and one of his assistants have been removed. Scott starts to wonder whether his job at SSU is safe.

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Published

2012-09-01

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2012)

Section

Cases

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