I agree with the description of signaling, but the entire solution seems mistaken. What you actually need is more potential nurses. Then, the ones who slack off can be fired and replaced by someone else.
The proposals (generated by an LLM?) sound… naive. If conspicuously slacking is the thing that gives you high status, why do you expect that public displays of metrics would change that? Everyone already knows; now they will… what?… know twice as strongly? If slacking is a high-status thing, then giving someone an excellence award would probably make them an official loser.
If you reduce the slacker’s salary, and as a consequence the slacker quits, do you have a replacement ready? If not, then you are in trouble. If yes, why are you waiting for all the proposed steps, when you could simply fire the slacker right now?
I agree with the description of signaling, but the entire solution seems mistaken. What you actually need is more potential nurses. Then, the ones who slack off can be fired and replaced by someone else.
The proposals (generated by an LLM?) sound… naive. If conspicuously slacking is the thing that gives you high status, why do you expect that public displays of metrics would change that? Everyone already knows; now they will… what?… know twice as strongly? If slacking is a high-status thing, then giving someone an excellence award would probably make them an official loser.
If you reduce the slacker’s salary, and as a consequence the slacker quits, do you have a replacement ready? If not, then you are in trouble. If yes, why are you waiting for all the proposed steps, when you could simply fire the slacker right now?