TopChem Case

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This paper discusses a case study of TopChem, as the company considers a change in its pay system so that employees would have as a base 75 percent of their current salary and would make up the other 25 percent if they meet certain performance goals. The writer points out recommendations that this approach could cause problems and that it would be better to eliminate poor workers and then keep the present pay base. Further, the writer notes that such a base could be augmented with incentive rewards on the same basis for improved performance.

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"The issue being raised by TopChem CEO Sam Verde is how to design a new pay system. The work done to date on this system has been to find a way to shape the system so as to motivate workers to perform at a higher level. In addition, the effort has been geared to fit with the team concept that was introduced 18 months earlier. The team concept took some time to get into working order as employees had to adapt to the change, with many resisting. Now, those employees are being asked to accept a different pay structure, one not based on the hierarchical structure that the company once had but one in keeping with the division into teams that are still part of the larger TopChem system."

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