Promoting Team Environment

Paper Summary:

This paper reports that the results of the author's surveys and the reported recent surveys of larger populations showed no inherent divergence between team-building and performance-based compensation. The author suggests that there may be creative ways to combine team-building through team-based remuneration supplemented by individual "overrides" when appropriate. The study relates that perhaps the most positive information for companies desiring to enhance teamwork is that teamwork is not only desirable, but also almost impossible not to foster, even in the executive suite, when co-workers offer support to executives attempting to alter their management styles.

Table of Contents
Research Question
Melding Performance-Based Compensation and a Team Environment
Literature Review
Team Environment Building
Team-Building and Compensation Studies
Methods
The Surveys
Exploring Teamwork Survey
Teamwork Survey
Compensation Survey
Results
Compensation Survey
U.S. Air Force Survey Results
United States Office of Personnel Management Job Satisfaction Survey
Similar Findings from Corporate Giants
Discussion

From the Paper:

"While the authors of the kibbutz/chamber orchestra study spent most of their time investigating how the non-hierarchical structure worked, in the case of the orchestra, they necessarily considered remuneration issues that were not as significant on the kibbutz, where members both lived and worked. The orchestra offered every member of the orchestra a fixed salary, and additional monetary rewards for each session in which a musician participated. To remain a member, each musician needs to participate in at least 35% of the orchestra's concerts. Conventional payment methods had not worked because of the time involved for practice and rehearsals; this method allowed the players to "participate in many of the orchestra's concerts and for part timers to maintain jobs with other musical groups as well.""

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