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TO MERIT OR NOT TO MERIT Case Analysis of merit pay policy of Samaritan Memorial Hospital Huang Yuqiao, Zou Yanning Li Baoying, Lai Yuting, Liao Wei Guangdong University of Foreign Study Table of contents Executive summary ………………………..………….…2 Introduction………………..……………………………3 About the hospital……………………………………...3 Merit pay identification………..……..………………………..3 Advantage and problem analysis…………………………….4 Advantages analysis …………………………………….….4 Problems analysis …………………………………………4 Suggestion ………………………..……………………………6 Recommendation …………………………………………….7 Personal merit pay ………………..…………………………7 Implementation …………..…………………………………8 Group merit pay ………………..……………………………11 Implementation ………………………..…………………12 Conclusion ……………..……………………………………13 Reference list ……………………………………………14 Executive summary This report gives a brief introduction of Samaritan Memorial Hospital and its Merit pay policy, analyzes merit pay’s advantages for nurses and main problems in the hospital’s implementation, supposes a personal merit pay mode which combine with personal merit and group merit , and then proposes 360?feedback evaluation for personal appraisal and Balanced Scorecard approach for group appraisal respectively ,as well as the implementation in the Hospital . The solutions made by this report are original and based on the case given and researches on line. Introduction About the hospital The Samaritan Memorial Hospital, is a community Hospital in Macon, Missouri. It has a number of 127 staff nurses. In January 1993, the hospital implemented a formal performance appraisal program for its staff nurse, namely merit pay. The merit policy of the hospital got through two main phases: Merit pay identific