There are two different aspects to: gaming the system and incentives, one involves straight out playing gives with rules and goals and the other is to dissemble. As a sidenote, usually, a harsher word like lying is use instead of describing the behavior as dissembling. As softer word describes lying because higher education exists in a regulatory environment that as a result, it cannot afford the truth.<\/p>\n
Gaming the system is when a procedure that involves money is easily fooled. For example, if enrollment management is measured by applications and not actual enrollment and attending class for one semester Or, coaches are not required to turn in travel receipts, or when departments are not required to have purchases pre-approved. This list could have hundreds of examples. Gaming happens when results are either not audited or poorly defined and can be easily manipulated.<\/p>\n
Another aspect of gamin involves incentives to dissemble. Typically, this happens with government regulations or laws. The dissembling takes place when honesty would lead to federal regulatory sanctions or lawsuits. The first example involves what on its face would be a simple matter, asking for a reference and only getting dates on employment, or calling a previous employer for a recommendation and receiving the same basic information. Why does this happen? Anyone involved in reviewing applications, knows why. If a previous employer provides an honest review of their former employee\u2019s work, they could open the possibility of a law suit for violating employment privacy information. This can lead to a carousel of short-term employees, who are released after a few weeks because they refuse to do the work, or do not accept employment expectations like showing up on time for work, leaving work early, taking long lunches, dressing in a slovenly manner, or arguing over trivial matters. The employer is unable to discover these problems beforehand because the prior employer is trying to avoid the possibility of a lawsuit. Of course, some candidates dissemble because they do not want to reveal shortcomings in their employment history.<\/p>\n
An employer can take some control of the system gamer by rewriting goals as precise statements that directly relate to outcomes so that incentive benefit the institution. Unfortunately, in today\u2019s labor market, there is no easy solution for finding the facts about a candidate\u2019s capabilities, short of hiring a private investigator, which encompasses another pack of problems.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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