Can you pay for quality work? A government case study

Recent developments in team performance pay are investigated using a complexity framework. The study challenges W. Edwards Deming's traditional view that encourages competition instead of cooperation. An Australian qualitative study is featured that demonstrates improved corporate performance a...

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Main Authors: Bickley, Maureen, Whiteley, Alma
Format: Journal Article
Published: American Society for Quality 2004
Online Access:http://asq.org/qic/display-item/?item=19680
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43987
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description Recent developments in team performance pay are investigated using a complexity framework. The study challenges W. Edwards Deming's traditional view that encourages competition instead of cooperation. An Australian qualitative study is featured that demonstrates improved corporate performance and greater stakeholder quality alignment when "quality pay" is used as a methodology. Data confirm that employees increasingly share management's strategic goal of achieving quality, and that quality pay leads to increased business process and customer and employee satisfaction. The new synergy of wage and quality systems provides insight for quality researchers and practitioners.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-439872017-01-30T15:11:26Z Can you pay for quality work? A government case study Bickley, Maureen Whiteley, Alma Recent developments in team performance pay are investigated using a complexity framework. The study challenges W. Edwards Deming's traditional view that encourages competition instead of cooperation. An Australian qualitative study is featured that demonstrates improved corporate performance and greater stakeholder quality alignment when "quality pay" is used as a methodology. Data confirm that employees increasingly share management's strategic goal of achieving quality, and that quality pay leads to increased business process and customer and employee satisfaction. The new synergy of wage and quality systems provides insight for quality researchers and practitioners. 2004 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43987 http://asq.org/qic/display-item/?item=19680 American Society for Quality fulltext
spellingShingle Bickley, Maureen
Whiteley, Alma
Can you pay for quality work? A government case study
title Can you pay for quality work? A government case study
title_full Can you pay for quality work? A government case study
title_fullStr Can you pay for quality work? A government case study
title_full_unstemmed Can you pay for quality work? A government case study
title_short Can you pay for quality work? A government case study
title_sort can you pay for quality work? a government case study
url http://asq.org/qic/display-item/?item=19680
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43987