Team Working and Pay: Evidence Andd Issues - IES Reports No. 281

This report examines the evidence and issues relating to team working and team pay, with particular reference to white-collar employees. Flatter organizational structures, multi-skilling for flexibility and pressures for improved quality and cost reductions all create the conditions for greater team working. Are concepts of team pay following? Here is a discussion of what constitutes a team and how performance pay schemes have been adopted or adapted for teams. It concludes with the issues employers should address when developing team working and pay.