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{{a|hr|{{image|Competence phase transition|png|The cost value threshold, yesterday}}}}{{d|{{PAGENAME}}|/kɒst-ˈvæljuː ˈθrɛʃˌhəʊld/|n|}}''Human resources science'': The point in an organisation where the ''value'' provided by a given member of staff, or item of capital, plant or machinery exactly equals its ''cost''. | {{a|hr|{{image|Competence phase transition|png|The cost value threshold, yesterday}}}}{{d|{{PAGENAME}}|/kɒst-ˈvæljuː ˈθrɛʃˌhəʊld/|n|}}''Human resources science'': The point in an organisation where the ''value'' provided by a given member of staff, or item of capital, plant or machinery exactly equals its ''cost''. | ||
The line isn’t scientific. It is very, very hard to quantify the “value” of | The line isn’t scientific. It is very, very hard to quantify the “value” of staff not in revenue-generating roles. In this day in age, that is most of us. I mean ''them''. | ||
And nor is an one’s value over time necessarily stable. Some of us get better, some get worse. It is hard to know why. | |||
Pure [[High modernism|modernist]] ideology suggests the firm should keep all staff as close to the cost-value threshold as it can. Those who over-contribute, it should pay more; those who under-contribute it should pay less. | |||
But practical challenges (namely, understanding what these people actually do, let alone how valuable it is), human frailty and so on means this won’t happen. | |||
You ''can’t'' just pay employees less, getting rid of them is expensive and coaching or managing them to better performance requires talent your [[human resources]] department is certain not to have. And paying good performers more just because they deserve it strikes against basic tenets of modern [[Human resources|human capital management]]. | |||
There is therefore a warm “safe zone” penumbra above the cost-value threshold, where over-delivering employees can sit happily until finally bid away, and a cooler, larger “[[competence phase transition]]” space ''below'' the line where net-negative staff can sit, for years, safely plodding along without really helping, but also without great risk of prejudice, even when a [[reduction in force]] comes along. | |||
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