Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Motivation, Telecommuting, Merit Pay

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Bill Irwin

Document Summary

Piece-rate: pay system in which individual workers are paid a certain sum of money for each unit of production produced. Wage incentive plans: various systems that link pay to performance on production jobs. Being paid hourly wage and a monthly bonus for producing over quota. Differential opportunity: threat to the establishment of wage incentives exists when workers have different opportunities to produce at a high level. Incompatible job design: assembly line it is impossible to identify and reward individual contributions to productivity. Restriction of productivity: artificial limitation of work output that can occur. Employees limit productivity after they feel they"ve accomplished a fair day"s work. Merit pay plans: linking pay to performance on white collar jobs. Low discrimination: managers unable and unwilling to discriminate between good and bad performers. Small increases: merit increase are too small to be effective motivators. Lump sum bonus: paid out all at one time and not built into base pay.