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To: KLP who wrote (175504)	2/18/2009 10:51:46 PM
From: ManyMoose	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 225578

A colleague did that very thing some years back. She became manager of a failed nursery that had very high costs and poor quality seedlings. Inside of a year she turned that nursery around. Costs went down and quality went up. She did it by promising the nursery workers that if they saved her money and produced a better product they would get to keep part of it. That's the only case I know of where reward was tied to results, and the only one that actually worked. Another colleague saved millions of dollars by alternative methods of dealing with logging slash. I was asked by the management team how much his award should be, and I told them it should be related to how much he saved. We can't do that, they said, what about a cash award? I held up ten fingers. He got $3000. All the other worker productivity incentives I knew in my government career, including some that I got myself, were in the form of cash awards. Those did not work because they depended on who the supervisor was. Some supervisors gave them out generously and some didn't. It had little to do with the choices made by the employees who received them. As in my case, I produced the best quality product that I could without regard to any thought of a cash award. When I got them, it was nice but I had already produced the best product I could under the circumstances. I finally told my supervisor I would rather have him tell me "Good job" than give me a cash award. He did that quite a bit and it worked.

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