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The Reward Management Toolkit
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The Reward Management Toolkit

by Michael Armstrong, Ann Chapman
January 2011
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 9m
English
Kogan Page
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Tool 08Contingent pay

Introduction

Base pay increases that are contingent on the results people achieve and their behaviour in achieving those results fall under the broad definition of performance-related or contribution-related pay. This definition emphasizes that performance is both about what has been achieved and how it has been achieved. It is in line with the views of Brumbach (1988), who wrote:

Performance means both behaviours and results. Behaviours emanate from the performer and transform performance from abstraction to action. Not just the instruments for results, behaviours are also outcomes in their own right – the product of mental and physical effort applied to tasks – and can be judged apart from results.

Varieties of performance ...

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