MGMT1135 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Reward System
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Need employees who have the interpersonal as well as technical skills. Workshops on problem-solving, communications, negotiation conflict-management, and coaching skills. Providing incentives to be a good team player. Encourage cooperative efforts rather than individual ones. Some people already possess the interpersonal skills to be effective team players. When hiring team members, in addition to the technical skills required to fill the job, care should be taken to ensure that candidates have interpersonal skills needed for the playing roles in the teams. A large proportion of people raised on the importance of individual accomplishments can be trained to become team players. Training specialists conduct exercises that allow employees to experience the satisfaction from teamwork, do workshops to improve employees" problem-solving, communication, negotiation, conflict-management, and coaching skills. Rework the reward system to encourage cooperative efforts rather than competitive (individual) ones. For example, companies may combined basic individual-incentive system and an annual bonus based on the achievement of team goals.
