10 Contribution-Based Compensation
Air Force Research Laboratory
Tim Barnhart
Mike McManus
When talking about pay and performance, the late Dr. George Abrahamson liked to characterize managers and employees as performance co-conspirators. Dr. Abrahamson had been around the block a few times: Director of the Poulter Laboratory and Senior Vice President of the Sciences Group at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), chief scientist for the U.S. Air Force, and a return at the end of his career to SRI as senior technical advisor. But people at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) remember George best for inspiring AFRL’s contribution-based compensation (CCS) system.
Performance is traditionally defined as a measure of how well an employee accomplishes ...
