Some hospitals were able to outperform others in a commercial insurer episode-based incentive program, but there was little evidence of global reductions in episode spending. Objectives: To evaluate ...

We interviewed hospital leaders and unit nurses in twenty-five hospitals between June and October 2008 to explore the effect of performance-based incentives. Interviewees expressed favorable ...

In part 2 of this article, we describe ways to align payment design with equity in the areas of performance measurement, spending targets, performance-based incentives, and care delivery redesign. In ...

Based on interviews with corporate innovators who experienced the incentive redesign in these firms and HR experts who observed their responses, they found three areas of change took place when ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. In recent years, there have been increasing efforts by the federal government and the ...

Historically, incentive compensation has been synonymous with sales teams— commissions, bonuses, and performance-based pay structures designed to close deals. But in today’s business landscape, ...

Managers looking to create social conditions that lead to open, diversified and large networks—which are known to spur innovation—should avoid implementing pay-for-performance incentives that rest on ...

The preceding chapters have synthesized our key findings and conclusions from the basic research about the way that incentives operate and from the applied research about the results of implementing ...