The effects of hybrid pay incentives on work-team performance: A longitudinal study

South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences

 
 
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Title The effects of hybrid pay incentives on work-team performance: A longitudinal study
 
Creator Dlamini, Mbusi Sutherland, Margie Werbeloff, Merle
 
Description Despite the widespread use of pay incentives to drive performance, few studies empirically demonstrate their long-term benefits within work-team settings in field studies; even fewer studies incorporate hybrid pay incentives in their design. This longitudinal field study explored the effects on individual work performance of allocating tellers to teams with supervisors who received hybrid pay incentives, where 60 per cent of their incentive was based on the individual performance of each of their team members and 40 per cent on their own performance. It was conducted on bulk-cash tellers working in 19 centres, using a time-series design. The results, derived from quantitative data collected from 82 individual tellers over 24 months, showed that hybrid pay incentives for supervisors of teams of tellers, some of whom were individually incentivised, were associated with significant increases in the volume, speed and accuracy of deposit processing by all the tellers. The findings empirically demonstrate the long term sustainability of improved performance associated with the introduction of hybrid pay incentive structures within work teams.
 
Publisher AOSIS Publishing
 
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Date 2015-11-27
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajems.v18i4.961
 
Source South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences; Vol 18, No 4 (2015); 463-474 2222-3436 1015-8812
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2015 Mbusi Dlamini, Margie Sutherland, Merle Werbeloff https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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