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- Is Gainsharing For You?
- One of the main reasons of failed organizational initiatives is that the prevalent compensation systems do not reward employees for modeling appropriate behaviors or achieving desired results. Gainsharing is an incentive system wherein the pay dispensed to the employees is linked to the organizational performance. Since it is a performance...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- What Is Gainsharing?
- Gainsharing is an incentive system wherein the pay dispensed to the employees is linked to the organizational performance. Since it is a performance centric organizational system, gainsharing ensures that employees are adequately compensated for their efforts. The paper examines the case studies of three different companies that use gainsharing to...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- Gainsharing is Becoming More Respectable
- Last month, I wrote about the latest opinion on gainsharingâ€"the sharing of operational savings by hospitals with physicians--from HHS’ Office of the Inspector General OIG. Although OIG had declared gainsharing illegal in July 1999, it told the hospital that had requested the advisory opinion that it could proceed with its...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
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- Gainsharing And Organizational Learning: An Analysis Of Employee Suggestions Over Time
- From the executive summary: ‘The paper addresses the issue of how gainsharing programs work by proposing a model of gainsharing as an organizational learning system. Employee suggestions submitted over the first four years of a gainsharing plan at one plant are analyzed. The results indicated that although traditional explanations of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Healthcare Roundup: Hospitals Regain Ground, Govt. Pumps Up Health IT, Gainsharing On a Roll, and More
- Green Shoots For Hospitals? â€" A Thomson Reuters survey of 500 hospitals showed that only a third operated in the red during the first quarter of this year, compared with 50 percent last fall. One reason is that their median labor cost fell 3 percent. Last year, median revenue per...
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Gainsharing plan.(successful gainsharing production plan adopted by Timken Co. for its Faircrest Steel Plant)(Brief Article)
- 00-00-0000 AT TIMKEN Co.'s FAIRCREST STEEL Plant in Canton, Ohio, a 1994 America' s Best Plants winner, employees participated in the design of a gainsharing plan that has generated payouts of as much as $8,000 a year per worker. Because extensive te 00-00-0000 AT...
- Research articles 1997-11-03
- The New Gainsharing Concept
- From the executive summary: ‘The new gainsharing plans are much more comprehensive and creative, and measure a broad range of operating performance variables, many important ways in which employees impact on the business. If designed and communicated correctly, these plans are much more comprehensive and closely linked to the success...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Health Affairs Publishes Research Paper Demonstrating Benefits of Gainsharing
- The May-June issue of Health Affairs magazine has published a research paper that clearly concludes that gainsharing has a positive financial and clinical impact on the health care organizations that pursue it. The research paper examines the results of the Office of Inspector General OIG approved gainsharing arrangement designed...
- Research articles 2008-05-15
- Hospital system reports big savings on cardiology supplies following gainsharing implementation.(HOSPITAL PURCHASING)(PinnacleHealth System)(Brief Article)
- PinnacleHealth, a five-hospital system based in Harrisburg, PA, saved 5% ($1 million) on cardiology supplies by standardizing products such as balloon catheters and using a gainsharing arrangement with surgeons, according to a New York Times article. Pinnacle received approval under a case-by-case policy permitted...
- Research articles 2006-02-01
- Share the savings. (gainsharing)(reprinted from The Washington Post Magazine, November 9, 1997)
- Some government agencies have developed gainsharing programs similar to those used by businesses. These programs provide incentives for government employees to improve quality and reduce costs by rewarding them with part of the money that they help to save. Reprinted from The Washington Post Magazine of Sunday, November...
- Research articles 1997-11-24
- Another Obstacle to Health Reform: Government Rules
- Gainsharing, or the splitting of cost savings between hospitals and physicians, has been prohibited since 1999. But a new opinion from the Office of the Inspector General OIG, in the Department of Health and Human Services, opens the door a crack to very limited kinds of gainsharing. At the same...
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- bonus of working together, The
- In Columbus, Ohio, NEA members use a contract provision to boost student achievement. A "gainsharing" agreement negotiated recently by the 5,000member Columbus Ohio Education Association creates the opportunity for breaking down isolation among faculty, boosting student achievement, and adding to educators' bank accounts. Here's how it works: Teachers, principals, and...
- Research articles 1999-02-01
- Incentive Plans: Gainsharing
- Gain sharing is a technique that compensates workers based on improvements in the company's productivity. Workers voluntarily participate in management to accept responsibility for major reforms. This type of pay is based on factors directly under a worker's control. Gains are measured and distributions are made frequently through a predetermined...
- White papers 1999-01-01
- Gainsharing the Wealth More Companies Turn to an Old-Fashioned Incentive
- Learn from the article that service companies have been a little farther behind in terms of organizational change, whereas many of the old smokestack industries were forced to change their culture out of survival. It's only in more recent years that service industries have changed. And now we're finding more...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Software deals remade; gainsharing contracts, rent-to-own agreements, application hosting, cafeteria-style support programs dot the landscape. (Enterprise software in transition: part 2 of a 3-part series).
- Much has changed in the enterprise applications market, and not just the rate of growth for vendors that a couple of years ago were posting 25 percent or better annual sales increases. The tougher climate for closing software deals is bringing swee Much has...
- Research articles 2002-11-01
- Thought Leaders Propose Health Reforms, But Will They Work?
- When three preeminent thought leaders like Elliott Fisher, Donald Berwick, and Karen Davis submit a joint proposal for healthcare reform, attention must be paid. Fisher, a professor at Dartmouth Medical School, has coauthored seminal papers about practice variations across the U.S.; Berwick is the president of the Institute for Healthcare...
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Where Do Doctors Stand on Reform?
- Until physicians change how they practice, “we’re just tinkering at the margin†of health care reform. That’s according to Steven Pearlstein, a business columnist for The Washington Post, who cites the fact that physicians’ decisions drive most health care spending. Referring to the recent New Yorker article by Atul Gawande...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Pacemakers get fancier, pricier.(PRICE SURVEY)
- Pacemaker prices will rise next year, with the newest technology accounting for double-digit increases. Since 2004, contracts have prevented some planned hikes from taking hold, but that could change as the deals begin to expire in 2006 and 2007. And, materials...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- Gainsharing = creased Efficiency at Kurdzlel
- By tying employee incentives directly to performance, Kurdziel Iron improved its operations while rewarding employees for their increased efforts. Competitors strive daily to out perform while waiting for others to stumble so they can take away customers. Their advances provide pressure and motivation to constantly strive to be better...
- Research articles 2001-09-01
- The Senate Bill: Medicare And Much Else
- Editor's Note: In the post below, Tim Jost looks at provisions of the Senate Democratic health reform bill dealing with Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP, and many other significant topics. In earlier posts, Jost took a first look at the Senate bill, provided a detailed look at several issues that arise under the bill's insurance reforms, and discussed...
- News items 2009-11-21
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