New guide to rewarding teams

TEAM PAY

New guide to rewarding teams

At its best, team pay can encourage closer teamworking and co-operative behaviour, but there are some formidable stumbling blocks. E-reward.co.uk has published a new practical guide to help you decide whether team pay will work well in your organisation.

What you will find in this report

This 48-page guide sets out the benefits and pitfalls of team-based pay and looks at the factors to take into account when introducing team rewards.

 

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Executive summary

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Chapter 1: What is team pay?

  • Definition of team pay
  • Description of purpose and features of team reward strategies
  • Evidence regarding prevalence of team reward in UK.

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Chapter 2: Why introduce team rewards?

  • Rationale for team rewards
  • What is a team?
  • Types of teams that operate within organisations.

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Chapter 3: Advantages and disadvantages of team pay

  • The case for team pay
  • Just another fad?
  • Stumbling blocks.

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Chapter 4: Criteria for success

  • When is team pay appropriate?
  • Design guidelines
  • Success factors
  • Research on team pay effectiveness.

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Chapter 5: The reward mix for teams

  • Conflicting demands of rewarding team and individual performance
  • Developing a mix of rewards
  • Using skill and competency-based pay
  • Team pay "architecture"
  • Non-financial rewards.

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Chapter 6: Developing and implementing team pay -- a seven-step programme

  • Effective approach for analysing, diagnosing and designing a team pay scheme
  • Checklist: Selecting performance measures
  • Checklist: Final proposals
  • Checklist: Success factors
  • Checklist: Requirements for team pay to act as an incentive
  • Checklist: Reward system effectiveness.

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Chapter 7: Key concerns of organisations moving to team-based pay

  • Dilemmas reward practitioners may encounter when introducing team rewards
  • Practical guidance from leading team reward gurus.

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Resources

  • A selection of essential publications on team pay.

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Want to know more?

Title: "A guide to team rewards", e-research, issue no. 12, June 2003, published by e-reward.co.uk.

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Posted 15 July 2003