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Rewarding Performance

Chapter 11

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• Recognize individual and group contributions to the firm by rewarding high performers

• Develop pay-for-performance plans that are appropriate for different levels in an organization

• Identify the potential benefits and drawbacks of different pay-for-performance systems and choose the plan that is most appropriate for a particular firm

Chapter 11 Overview

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• Design an executive compensation package that motivates executives to make decisions that are in the firm’s best interests

• Weigh the pros and cons of different compensation methods for sales personnel and create an incentive plan that is consistent with the firm’s marketing strategy

• Design an incentive system to reward excellence in customer service

Chapter 11 Overview (cont’d)

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Pay-for-Performance: The Challenges

Pay-for-performance or incentive systems reward employee performance on the basis of these assumptions:

1. Individual employees and work teams differ in how much they contribute – not only in what they do it but how they do it

2. Company overall performance depends to a large extent on the performance of individuals and groups

3. To attract, retain and motivate high performers and be fair to all employees a company needs to reward employees on the basis of their relative performance

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• The “do only what you get paid for” syndrome• Unethical behavior • Negative effects on the spirit of cooperation• Lack of control• Difficulties in measuring performance• Psychological contracts• The credibility gap• Job dissatisfaction and stress• Potential reduction of intrinsic drives

Pay-for-Performance: The Challenges

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• Link pay and performance appropriately– Piece-rate system – A compensation system

in which employees are paid per unit produced.

• Use pay-for-performance as part of a broader HRM system

• Build employee trust

Meeting the Challenges of Pay-for-Performance Systems

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• Promote the belief that performance makes a difference

• Use multiple layers of rewards• Increase employee involvement• Use motivation and nonfinancial incentives

Meeting the Challenges of Pay-for-Performance Systems

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Types of Pay-for-Performance Plans

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Individual-based plans• Merit pay• Bonus programs• Lump-sum payments

• Advantages • Rewarded performance is likely to be repeated – expectancy theory • Financial incentives can shape an individual's goals• Help the firm achieve individual equity• Fit in with an individualistic culture

• Disadvantages• May promote single-mindedness• Employees do not believe pay and performance are linked• They may work against achieving quality goals, and they may promote

inflexibility.

Types of Pay-for-Performance Plans - Individual

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Conditions under which individual-based plans are most likely to succeed

• When the contributions of individual employees can be accurately isolated

• When the job demands autonomy• When cooperation is less critical to successful

performance or when competition is to be encouraged

Types of Pay-for-Performance Plans - Individual

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• Team-based plans attempt to support other efforts to increase the flexibility of the work force within a firm.

• These plans normally reward all team members equally based on group outcomes.

• Advantages– Foster group cohesiveness – Facilitate performance measurement

• Disadvantages – Possible lack of fit with individualistic cultural values– Free-riding effect– Social pressures to limit performance– Difficulties in identifying meaningful groups– Inter-group competition leading to a decline in overall

performance.

Types of Pay-for-Performance Plans - Teams

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Conditions under which team-based plans are most likely to succeed-

– When work tasks are so intertwined it is difficult to single out who did what

– When the firm’s organization facilitates the implementation of team-based incentives

– When the objective is to foster entrepreneurship in self-managed work groups

Types of Pay-for-Performance Plans - Teams

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Plant-wide plans Generally referred to as gainsharing programs because they return a portion of the company's cost savings to the workers, usually in the form of a lump-sum bonus.

• Advantages – eliciting active employee input– increasing the level of cooperation– fewer measurement difficulties– improved quality

• Disadvantages – protection of low performers – free riders– problems with the criteria used to trigger rewards– management-labor conflict

Types of Pay-for-Performance Plans – Plant-Wide

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Conditions favoring Plant-Wide Plans:– Firm size – small to medium sized plants– Technology – does not limit improvements– Historical performance – takes into account different

plants’ varying levels of efficiency so as to not penalize efficient plants

– Corporate culture – less likely to succeed in firms with a traditional hierarchy

– Stability of product market – demand for product is relatively stable

Types of Pay-for-Performance Plans – Plant-Wide

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Corporate-wide Plans – macro type of incentive program and is based on the

entire corporation's performance

• Differences between Corporate-wide Plan and Gainsharing– no attempt is made to reward workers for productivity

improvements– they are very mechanistic– they may used to fund retirement programs although

there are exceptions

Types of Pay-for-Performance Plans – Corporate-Wide

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• Corporate-wide Types of Plans

• Profit-sharing plans– Cash plans

• Employees receive cash shares of the firm’s profits at regular intervals.– Deferred profit-sharing plans

• A predetermined portion of profits is placed in each employee’s account under a trustee’s supervision.

• Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs)– A corporation annually contributes its own stock—or cash (with a limit of

15% of compensation) to be used to purchase the stock—to a trust established for the employees.

– The trust holds the stock in individual employee accounts and distributes it to employees upon separation from the firm if the employee has worked long enough to earn ownership of the stock.

Types of Pay-for-Performance Plans – Corporate-Wide

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• Advantages – Financial flexibility for the firm– Increased employee commitment– Tax advantages

• Disadvantages – Risk for employees– Limited effect on productivity– Long-run financial difficulties.

Types of Pay-for-Performance Plans – Corporate-Wide

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• Conditions favoring corporate-wide plans

– Firm size– Interdependence of different parts of

the business– Market conditions– The presence of other incentives

Types of Pay-for-Performance Plans – Corporate-Wide

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BonusPlans that are designed to motivate short-term performance of managers and are tied to company profitability

Designing Pay-for-Performance Plans Managers and Executives

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• Stock option– The right to purchase a specific number of shares of

company stock at a specific price during a specific period of time.

– Options have no value (go “underwater”) if the price of the stock drops below the option’s strike price (the option’s stock purchase price).

• Perks- non-cash incentives

Designing Pay-for-Performance Plans Managers and Executives

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• Pay-for-performance: The Challenges• Meeting the challenges of pay-for-

performance systems• Types of pay-for-performance• Designing pay-for-performance plans

for executives and salespeople

Summary and Conclusions