Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Assigning jobs / work

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

Your method involves a lot of work on the person doing the assigning. We
have a list of jobs, and we sign up for them at a meeting. If someone
doesn't get the job they like, there are plenty of others to choose from.


-- 
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California
lilbert [at] comcast.net

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> From: Dale Grover <dgrover [at] redcedar.com>
> Reply-To: Developing cohousing - collaborative housing communities
> <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 14:22:59 -0500
> To: cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org
> Subject: [C-L]_ Assigning jobs / work
> 
> When assigning jobs to community members, what process do you use?
> 
> (If this has already been discussed to death, just a pointer to the
> thread would be great.  I didn't see any discussion in the past year
> or two, though.)
> 
> At Great Oak (recently completed, Ann Arbor Michigan), we have all
> the job descriptions posted, have everyone take a survey (web-based)
> indicating their preference for each job on a scale of -2 to +2, and
> then we try to assign the jobs so the least-happy person will be as
> happy as possible.  Our first try was in February, and no jobs went
> to a person whose preference was less than neutral (0) for that job,
> though cleaning jobs were, for some unknown reason, not as popular as
> the "techie" jobs (webmaster, data and phone maintenance, etc.).
> Currently the assignment is made manually, but we're looking at
> trying to do most of the assignments automatically, since many of our
> jobs will change seasonally and it takes a long time to do by hand.
> 
> --Dale
> 
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