Team Awards Differ from Group Bonuses in That They

question 67

Multiple Choice

Team awards differ from group bonuses in that they

• A) are typically plant-wide group incentive programs.
• B) make payments in company stock rather than in cash.
• C) are more likely to use a broad range of performance measures.
• D) encourage competition among individual employees to achieve higher bonuses.
• E) give more importance to organizational performance than small groups' performances.

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