"Schools to Evaluate Business"
Don't you wish? Wouldn't that be a shocking headline? But business thinks it is qualified to rate schools. Let's drift off a moment and turn the tables, rating business performance. . . .
How would schools rate businesses? Well, let's see. For a starter, do businesses offer opportunities for lifelong learning?
Do they offer equal opportunities to all employees?
Do they employ on the basis of merit and skill, regardless of "who you know"?
Do they motivate employees by making every day an interesting, engaging experience?
If employees start slacking off and don't complete their work, do they keep trying to get the employee involved?
Do they blame themselves for lazy employees because the work is just too boring and routine?
Do they tell employees, "Do you just want to sit around your whole life working? You should work hard here so you can have more time off to learn things."
Do businesses model good citizenship skills and democratic participation in the workplace?
Do businesses contact the families of employees to keep them regularly updated on how they are doing?
Is the workplace heterogeneous or "tracked?"
Does every supervisor have about 30 employees that they are responsible for checking their work every day and offering feedback for improvement?
Does business treat its employees as "customers?"
Do CEOs come into different work areas to see how things are going and understand what is taking place in the workplace?
Do businesses invest in schools to better compete in the global economy?
Do businesses provide schools with the needed technology so students learn the necessary skills?
Do buinesses "graduate", that is, retire the same number of employees they hire? Or is it closer to a 50%, 40%, 20% "graduation rate?"
How many businesses actually succeed?
Are minorities equally represented in each workplace?
Do they close the gaps between minority employee knowledge and skill and non-minority?
Do they equally promote women in the workplace?
Can schools work to double the number of talented employees leaving their jobs in order to teach, say by the year 2015?
How committed is business to public education?
Do businesses raise a workforce to value education for its own sake?
Do businesses have liberal time-off policies to allow workers to be involved in their children's education?
Do they pay for continuing education?
Do they have full pay for maternity/paternity leave? After all, these are the future students of the country.
Do businesses actively promote and campaign for mill levy's and school funding?
How would schools rate businesses? Well, let's see. For a starter, do businesses offer opportunities for lifelong learning?
Do they offer equal opportunities to all employees?
Do they employ on the basis of merit and skill, regardless of "who you know"?
Do they motivate employees by making every day an interesting, engaging experience?
If employees start slacking off and don't complete their work, do they keep trying to get the employee involved?
Do they blame themselves for lazy employees because the work is just too boring and routine?
Do they tell employees, "Do you just want to sit around your whole life working? You should work hard here so you can have more time off to learn things."
Do businesses model good citizenship skills and democratic participation in the workplace?
Do businesses contact the families of employees to keep them regularly updated on how they are doing?
Is the workplace heterogeneous or "tracked?"
Does every supervisor have about 30 employees that they are responsible for checking their work every day and offering feedback for improvement?
Does business treat its employees as "customers?"
Do CEOs come into different work areas to see how things are going and understand what is taking place in the workplace?
Do businesses invest in schools to better compete in the global economy?
Do businesses provide schools with the needed technology so students learn the necessary skills?
Do buinesses "graduate", that is, retire the same number of employees they hire? Or is it closer to a 50%, 40%, 20% "graduation rate?"
How many businesses actually succeed?
Are minorities equally represented in each workplace?
Do they close the gaps between minority employee knowledge and skill and non-minority?
Do they equally promote women in the workplace?
Can schools work to double the number of talented employees leaving their jobs in order to teach, say by the year 2015?
How committed is business to public education?
Do businesses raise a workforce to value education for its own sake?
Do businesses have liberal time-off policies to allow workers to be involved in their children's education?
Do they pay for continuing education?
Do they have full pay for maternity/paternity leave? After all, these are the future students of the country.
Do businesses actively promote and campaign for mill levy's and school funding?
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