MGHB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Profit Sharing, Job Performance, Motivation
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Organizational behaviour chapter 6 motivation in. Linking pay to performance on production jobs ->prototype is piece rate: piece rate a pay system in which individual workers are paid a certain sum of money for each unit of production completed eg. paid for each dress stitched + wage: wage incentive plans various systems that link pay to performance on production jobs. Incompatible job design the way jobs are designed can make it difficult to implement wage incentives. As the size of the team increases, the individual"s productivity and pay decreases: restriction of productivity the artificial limitation of work output that can occur under wage incentive plans. Workers may feel that increased productivity due to the incentive will lead to reductions in the workforce or an employer will reduce the rate of payment to cut labour costs. Managers may rate most employees as equal performers: small increases merit increases are simply too small to be effective motivators.
