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1 Grasp the major challengesin payforpertommance 4 Develop comp=tace in desigaing pay for
systems. performance pias for executives and sees people
2. Develop competence in dealing with potential 5. Leam about haw to reward excellence in customer
problems with pay for performance stan. sonic.
3 Have ‘amity with various types of pay 6 Become aware of special concerns with pay for
forperionnance plans and thei edventages pesfomance programs in smal Ams,
sadveniages.
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‘of pay incentives is increasing. In 1988, the numb
performance (chiefly in the form of bonuses) to all salar
2014, experts estimated that close to 95 percent of L
ound the world. A mor
related pay increaThe “Do Only What You Get Paid For”
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For instance, many medical roup p
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ing a great deal of contreduce employees’ intrinsic drives, or internally driven motivation. One expert argues that the
more a firm stresses pay as an incentive for high performance, the less likely itis that employees
will engage in activites that benefit the organization (such as overtime and extra-special service)
unless they are promised an explicit reward.” Exhibit 11.1 illustrates how extrinsic motivation
may crowd out intrinsic motivation when incentives are introduced,
Meeting the Challenges of Pay-for-Perfarmance Systems
Properly designed pay-for-performance systems present managers with an excellent opportunity
toalign employees’ interests with those of the organization, The following recommendations can
help to enhance the success of performance programs and avoid the pitfalls we just discussed
Develop a Complementary Relationship Between Extrinsic
and Intrinsic Rewards
Recent psychological research suggest that hybrid intrinsic-entrinsie rewards may be effective
motivators and that one type of reward may not necessarily compete with the other but rather
they serve as complements to each other! For instance, “3M offers rewards that nourish both:1k Pay and Performance Appropriatel
astances, managers can justif
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grams providing examples of “gray” or unethical behavio
hen it i8 appropriate or inappropriate to
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