Organizational Control Types

• Personal and Hierarchical Control

  Question of the day: Under what conditions does individual accountability interfere with group functioning and organizational performance? SPECIFICALLY: What effect does gainsharing have on employee performance, according to the article by Wellbourne?

• Reading 1: Donald Roy, "Work Satisfaction and Social Reward in Quota Achevement: An Analysis of Piecework Incentive." American Sociological Review, 18 (1953): 507-514. In Coursepak.

• Reading 2:Theresa M. Welbourne, "Pay for What Peformance? Using the Role-Based Performance Scale," Journal of Strategic Performance Measurement, (October/November, 1997), pp. 13-20. In Coursepak.

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