🚀 go-pugleaf

> Date:          Tue, 19 Aug 1997 16:20:13 -0400
Fred Nickols says:

> I'm looking into team compensation for a fellow I know (not a client, by the
> way), and the subject of voting on shares in team bonuses has come up.  The
> idea is something similar to what we've heard goes on in major league
> baseball teams with world series money.  Does anyone on this list know
> anything about that?
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I am not up on the particulars of team bonuses per se.  However I
will throw out that the concept of team conpensation over, above,
beyond, in addition to the agreed upon compensation package is
probably a  very bad idea.


If the annual review process is generally felt to be counter
productive and destructive,  how much more so would a team member
review process that impacts compensation  be??!!   Can you think of
a better way to destroy team cohesiveness and mutual trust?  (Or a
better way to encourage a team to stop searching for truth and start
creating disinformation that pays better?)

The rule of thumb that a loal early adopter and succesful implementor
of all the TQM stuff has is that team rewards should have little salvage
value and/or should be consumed within 24h - and I think that should just
about cover the subject of team rewards.  I would guess ball caps and
T-shirts would fit in the "little salvage value" classification.

I don't think there is much of a parallel between a profesional
sports "team" and an industrial TQM type team and providing
compensation as if there were is not sensible at all.


<< All opinions, statements, &c are my own>>
L.H. Garlinghouse, C.Q.E.
Pocahontas AR U.S.A.
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