Case in Point: Nucor Aligns Company Goals With Employee Goals
1. How do goals and objectives at NUCOR relate to the planning facet of the P-O-L-C framework?
2. What negative consequences might arise at Nucor Corporation as a result of tying pay to company
performance?
3. What effects do penalizing low performers have on Nucor employees?
4. What other ways can a company motivate employees to increase productivity, in addition to monetary
incentives?
5. How might the different reward systems at Nucor, individual empowerment and economic incentives,
motivate people differently? Or do they have the same effect?
6. How would unionization at Nucor impact the dynamic of the organization?
