Word: hsa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...totally subjective evaluation," says one employee who says he was unaffected by the bonus plan. Previously, members say, managers of the 11 agencies have been awarded bonuses based on how well each division does. The new evaluations were intended, says HSA President Michael O'Brien '83, purely as a form of incentive and reward; bonuses were offered "to keep the managers on their toes...
Another reason for decreased student autonomy may be traced to a wide trend--the increase in pre-professionalism and seriousness among students nationwide, a tendency HSA has encouraged and emphasized in recent years...
...There is more real pressure now to maintain your office hours, for instance," explains John Nevin '84, manager of the Linen Agency, not traditionally the most formal in comportment of the services. HSA looks much more professional now than in its previous "released" days. Nevin adds...
...whole degree of professionalism is coming into it," observes Brian Mullaney, manager of HSA's newest agency, advertising, who is encouraged by the fact that he sees "better managers" working at HSA. Mullaney, who plans to make advertising design a career, adds that a "corporate image" is developing at HSA simply because "it's the way the real world...
...Vecchio suggests that the normal college student is "more professionally oriented" than in the past, so that the student managers themselves take their jobs more seriously as providing experience and training for the real business world. In a summer poll taken at HSA of student managers, 45 percent said they plan to attend business school in the future...