The Guidelines for Designing an Incentive Compensation System That Will

question 60

Multiple Choice

The guidelines for designing an incentive compensation system that will help drive successful strategy execution include

• A)making the payoff for meeting or beating performance targets a major, not minor, piece of the total compensation package.
• B)having a bonus and incentive plan that applies to managers only (employees should generally not be included in incentive pay plans but should have attractive wages and salaries).
• C)having an outside wage and salary expert administer the system, so that there is no doubt as to its fairness and impartiality.
• D)basing the incentives on group performance rather than individual performance.
• E)making minimal use of nonmonetary incentives and rewarding people for diligently performing their assigned duties.

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