Rewarding Teams Lessons from the Trenches

by Parker, Glenn; McAdams, Jerry; Zielinski, David

• ISBN13: 9780787948092
• ISBN10: 0787948098
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-25
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Using actual case studies from a variety of leading companies, Rewarding Teams provides a blueprint for building team reward programs that spur development and success. The book focuses on the three most important types of team-based rewards programs--recognition plans, project team incentives, and group incentives--offering readers detailed advice on how they can create and implement such programs themselves. Twenty-seven profiles of team reward and recognition plans from today's top companies give readers an in-depth look at how these plans work in actual practice. They also provide the basis for the set of best principles included in the final chapter.

Author Biography

GLENN PARKER is a consultant who has worked with pharmaceutical companies, telecommunications organizations, manufacturers, service businesses, and health care providers to create and sustain high performing teams, effective team players, and team-based systems. He is author of the best-selling Team Players and Teamwork.<BR>JERRY MCADAMS is the national practice leader of the rewards and recognition systems for Watson Wyatt Worldwide and the co-director of the nonprofit Consortium for Alternative Reward Strategy Research.<BR>DAVID ZIELINSKI is a business journalist who has covered the human resources, organizational development, and business management fields for more than ten years.

Table of Contents

1. The Natural History of a Work Team.

2. The Missing Link: Meaningful Team Rewards.

3. Company Profiles--Recognition Plans.

Introduction.

Chase Manhattan.

Markam.

Merck & Company.

Operations Management International.

Ralston Purina Company.

4. Company Profiles--Project Team Incentives.

Introduction.

Great Plains Software.

Community Health Care.

Bayer Corporation.

Utilicorp United.

Lotus Development Company.

5. Company Profiles--Organizational Unit (""Group"") Incentives.

Introduction.

Rockwell Automation.

Mid-States Technical Staffing Services.

Ameritech Internal Audit Services.

Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation.

RR Donnelley & Sons.

The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publisher (ASCAP).

CARS IV Research.

What We've Learned: Lessons from the Trenches.

Bibliography.

Index.