Comments on: Group Competition Incentive Pros and Cons http://leapcomp.com/2008/02/group-competition-incentive-pros-and-cons.html Thu, 17 May 2012 23:34:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: admin http://leapcomp.com/2008/02/group-competition-incentive-pros-and-cons.html#comment-34089 admin Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:51:38 +0000 http://julienldionne.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/group-competition-incentive-pros-and-cons/#comment-34089 Hi Simon, Sorry for the late response, your comment got filtered as spam. Individual performance should be rewarded and I rarely see incentive compensation plans rewarding only team performance, but rewarding individual performance is often unpractical (hard to assign a sales to a single person), and individual incentives also does not reward team work and cooperation which is usually a sought behavior. Julien Hi Simon,

Sorry for the late response, your comment got filtered as spam. Individual performance should be rewarded and I rarely see incentive compensation plans rewarding only team performance, but rewarding individual performance is often unpractical (hard to assign a sales to a single person), and individual incentives also does not reward team work and cooperation which is usually a sought behavior.

Julien

]]> By: Simon Oshodi http://leapcomp.com/2008/02/group-competition-incentive-pros-and-cons.html#comment-32274 Simon Oshodi Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:21:49 +0000 http://julienldionne.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/group-competition-incentive-pros-and-cons/#comment-32274 why not reward everyone based on individual performance? why not reward everyone based on individual performance?

]]> By: Paul Hebert http://leapcomp.com/2008/02/group-competition-incentive-pros-and-cons.html#comment-7 Paul Hebert Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:00:00 +0000 http://julienldionne.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/group-competition-incentive-pros-and-cons/#comment-7 Relating to the point on relative value of the award. I'm expanding the results of the study that showed that social comparisons can have a huge effect on how we view what might seem like positive events. <br/><br/>From a post on <a HREF="http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/01/experiences-beat-possessions-why.php" REL="nofollow"><br/>PsyBlog</a>: "One striking example is the finding that people prefer to earn $50,000 a year while everyone else earns $25,000, instead of earning $100,000 themselves and having other people earn $200,000 (Solnick & Hemenway, 1998)."<br/><br/>I understand the pitfalls associated with transferring results from one study to a completely different application - on the surface I think it holds. Relating to the point on relative value of the award. I’m expanding the results of the study that showed that social comparisons can have a huge effect on how we view what might seem like positive events.

From a post on
PsyBlog: “One striking example is the finding that people prefer to earn $50,000 a year while everyone else earns $25,000, instead of earning $100,000 themselves and having other people earn $200,000 (Solnick & Hemenway, 1998).”

I understand the pitfalls associated with transferring results from one study to a completely different application - on the surface I think it holds.

]]> By: Paul Hebert http://leapcomp.com/2008/02/group-competition-incentive-pros-and-cons.html#comment-6 Paul Hebert Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:37:00 +0000 http://julienldionne.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/group-competition-incentive-pros-and-cons/#comment-6 Julien - I posted today on this - more detail on the "how".<br/><br/>Link here: http://incentive-intelligence.typepad.com/incentive_intelligence/2008/02/class-in-sessio.html<br/><br/>I think we're in general agreement - group competition can be poorly designed and poorly applied. However, there are real business reasons for using it. Thanks for the comments.! Julien - I posted today on this - more detail on the “how”.

Link here: http://incentive-intelligence.typepad.com/incentive_intelligence/2008/02/class-in-sessio.html

I think we’re in general agreement - group competition can be poorly designed and poorly applied. However, there are real business reasons for using it. Thanks for the comments.!

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