Rewarding Teams: Lessons from the Trenches

Using actual case studies from a variety of leading companies, Rewarding Teams provides a blueprint for building team reward programs that spur development and success. The book focuses on the three most important types of team-based rewards programs--recognition plans, project team incentives, and group incentives--offering readers detailed advice on how they can create and implement such programs themselves. Twenty-seven profiles of team reward and recognition plans from today's top companies give readers an in-depth look at how these plans work in actual practice. They also provide the basis for the set of best principles included in the final chapter.

About the Authors

Glenn Parker, an author and consultant, works with organizations to create and sustain high-performing teams, effective team players, and team-based systems. His clients include major industrial, pharmaceutical, health care, telecommunication, retail, and governmental organizations. In great demand as a speaker at corporate meetings and national conferences, Parker is author of numerous books and instruments. His best-selling Team Players and Teamwork (Jossey-Bass, 1990) has been published in several languages and was selected as one of the ten best business books of 1990.

Jerry McAdams served as National Practice Leader of Reward and Recognition Systems for Watson Wyatt Worldwide, and is located in St. Louis. He is also codirector of the nonprofit Consortium for Alternative Reward Strategy Research (CARS) and was previously vice president of Maritz, Inc., in St. Louis. He is a consultant to a number of leading sales and marketing, health care, financial, industrial, and service firms on the design, implementation, and evaluation of compensation, reward, and recognition plans. McAdams is the author of many publications, including The Reward Plan Advantage: A Manager’s Guide to Improving Business Performance Through People (Jossey-Bass, 1996); Organizational Performance and Rewards (CARS, 1995), and People, Performance, and Pay (APQC, 1988).

David Zielinski is a freelance journalist based in Minneapolis who has covered the human resources, organizational development, and business management fields for the past twelve years. He is the former managing editor of the Lakewood Publications newsletter group and is a frequent contributor to national and Twin Cities–based business magazines and newsletters.