Rewarding Teams

GLENN PARKER is a consultant who has worked with pharmaceutical companies, telecommunications organizations, manufacturers, service businesses, and health care providers to create and sustain high performing teams, effective team players, and team-based systems. He is author of the best-selling Team Players and Teamwork.JERRY MCADAMS is the national practice leader of the rewards and recognition systems for Watson Wyatt Worldwide and the co-director of the nonprofit Consortium for Alternative Reward Strategy Research.DAVID ZIELINSKI is a business journalist who has covered the human resources, organizational development, and business management fields for more than ten years.

• 1. The Natural History of a Work Team2. The Missing Link: Meaningful Team Rewards3. Company Profiles -- Recognition Plans Introduction Chase Manhattan Markam Merck & Company Operations Management International Ralston Purina Company4. Company Profiles -- Project Team Incentives Introduction Great Plains Software Community Health Care Bayer Corporation Utilicorp United Lotus Development Company5. Company Profiles -- Organizational Unit ("Group") Incentives Introduction Rockwell Automation Mid-States Technical Staffing Services Ameritech Internal Audit Services Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation RR Donnelley & Sons The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publisher (ASCAP) CARS IV ResearchWhat We've Learned: Lessons from the TrenchesBibliography Index

"In today's world, where virtual, global teams are often the norm, Rewarding Teams delivers reward and recognition strategies that can make a real difference in the effective management of teams-a necessity for individuals and organization in the twenty-first century." --Tim Walker, director, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Center for Leadership Development " 'Lessons from the Trenches' are the operative words here: the authors have spent a lot of time in companies, seeing what works and what doesn't. If you're trying to figure out how to reward you company's teams-and these days, who isn't?-this is the book for you." --John Case, executive editor, Harvard Business School Publishing "At last, a book that demonstrates how two dozen top companies use rewards to make teams work. A useful handbook for human resource and line managers alike." --Jon R. Katzenbach, senior partner, Katzenbach Partners LLC