BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Gain Sharing
- a group-based bonus plan to share profits from improvements in production efficiency between employees and the company. There are many variants of gain sharing, the Rucker and Scanlon plans being the best known.
Additional Resources
- How Gain Sharing Is Ringing Up Incentives For AT&T And Accenture
- This is a case study of AT&T. It has been seen that gain sharing is ringing up incentives for AT&T and Accenture. With competition growing among long distance and local service providers, AT&T, the communications services corporation, was examining creative ways to leapfrog its competitors and link its customers with...
- Case studies 2003-12-01
- America West, Continental Airlines' Pact Agree on Code-sharing. (Originated from The Phoenix Gazette)
- Sep. 6--Passengers of America West and Continental airlines each will gain eight new destinations when a code-sharing agreement between the carriers is launched Oct. 1. Sep. 6--Passengers of America West and Continental airlines each will gain eight new destinations when a code-sharing agreement between the ...
- Research articles 1994-09-06
- 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
- Pay For Organizational Or Unit Performance
- Pay for organizational performance is the compensation framework wherein the employees are compensated based on the overall performance of the organization. Such a framework shares the risk of success with the employees. Gain sharing is a compensation system in which basis of pay is a subunit of the organization such...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- SSCC Fargo workers unionize.(Smurfit-Stone Container Corp)(Brief Article)
- Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. SSCC employees in the company's Fargo, N.D., box plant have recently formed a union. "The company kept promising gain sharing for three to four years and we never got that" says 20-year SSCC employee R Smurfit-Stone...
- Research articles 2004-11-20
- HuffPo Launches News Sharing Collaboration With Facebook
- Huffington Post has teamed up with Facebook to launch HuffPost Social News, the company announced. The news aggregator hopes to gain more readers—and more ad dollars—as users increasingly get their news from friends posts on Facebook. The two didn't say how the ad sharing part of the deal would...
- External links 2009-08-17
- Pretec to Offer Access to Club Photo Online Photo Sharing and Finishing Community; Living Album 99 Lets Users Publish Entire Albums Online for Sharing with Family and Friends
- SAN JOSE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 13, 1999-- Club Photo Inc. today announced that digital image and I/O firm Pretec Electronics Corporation will provide a direct link to Club Photo's extraordinary online photo sharing and finishing community, the Club Photo Network. Club Photo's unique, free photo album software, Living Album...
- Research articles 1999-04-13
- Sharing Information In Your Company: Is it Time for an Intranet?
- Intranets are an effective internal communication and information sharing tool for large companies. One should decide if small business can benefit from an Intranet based on eight key factors. Some of these factors are Top management, duration of use, number of users and amount of data. All these factors have...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Sharing Your Outlook Information
- One of the greatest strengths of Outlook is its ability to manage multiple kinds of data. When you're faced with scenarios such as planning or organizing your day-to-day activities by creating to-do lists, booking appointments, searching address books, or exchanging e-mails with colleagues or family, Outlook makes these tasks intuitive...
- White papers
- Global Fingerprint Sharing Alliance Doubles to Reduce Botnet and Zero-Day Threats; New Members Include Cable & Wireless and XS4ALL, among Others
- LEXINGTON, Mass. -- Arbor Networks, a leader in network security, today announced that the global Fingerprint Sharing Alliance continues to gain significant momentum since its launch six months ago. The alliance has doubled in size to 32 members and the most recent companies to join include: Cable & Wireless, Liberty...
- Research articles 2005-10-26
- ALONG Mobile Technologies Inc. to Gain Membership Into the Intelligence Grouping and Resource Sharing Working Group
- NEW YORK -- ALONG Mobile Technologies Inc. (OTC:AGMB), a leading provider of wireless interactive entertainment products and services in China, today announced that it has joined IGRSIntelligent Grouping and Resource Sharing Working Group (http://www.igrs.org/en/index/index.asp). IGRS Working Group gathers many major Chinese and International enterprises and research institutes within the Information...
- Research articles 2006-11-14
- THE PAYOFF: Reaping the rewards of world-class management
- 00-00-0000 IN BIG, BOLD DIGITS THE NUMBERS STAND OUT ON THE bulletin board in the break room. They have a regular spot on Page 1 of the company newsletter. And, of course, they're updated regularly on the company intranet. Every employee watches them, and everyone knows what they...
- Research articles 1999-08-16
- THE PAYOFF.(sales and profits of 100 Best-Managed Companies)(Statistical Data Included)
- Reaping the rewards world-class management. IN BIG, BOLD DIGITS THE NUMBERS STAND OUT ON THE bulletin board in the break room. They have a regular spot on Page 1 of the company newsletter. And, of course, they're updated regularly on the company intranet. Every...
- Research articles 1999-08-16
- Sharing Information With Executives
- Yesterday, I mentioned to folks on Twitter that I used three different analytics tools to measure the same thing. I was trying to quantify how many people viewed a page. Tool #1 Counted 15 "hits". Tool #2 Counted 10 "hits". Tool #3 Counted 9 "hits". ...
- News items 2009-11-18
- CBS. NBC affils begin sharing.(Brief Article)
- Scranton-area stations seek gain from economy of scale Northeastern Pennsylvania's CBS affiliate has moved its news department alongside that of the area's NBC affiliate, under an unusual agreement that the two stations refer to as "shared s Scranton-area stations seek gain from...
- Research articles 1998-06-01
- Best First Steps in BPO-Exult & Bank of America
- The article is about the success venture of Bank of America and Exult. Bank of America knew what it would take to ensure success when it decided to outsource its human resources functions. The article has the bottom-line story of the definitive steps they took upfront to find the right...
- White papers 2002-02-01
- Incentivized Buyer and Supplier Alliances Drive Continuous Supply Chain Improvement
- The article is about the pulp and paper industry discussing about the supply chain improvement. A survey of suppliers and paper company purchasing executives reveals that major cost reductions are possible with continuous improvement-based, gain-sharing agreements. The realities of the pulp and paper industry are tight market conditions, shrinking...
- White papers 2002-11-01
- Incentives Build Relationship Outsourcing
- Price is one way through which an outsourcing supplier differentiates itself during the selection process. Building incentives into the proposal is another. The concept is described with the example of EDS. The lessons taken from the review is- relationship incentives help create a long-term relationship for suppliers because they continue...
- White papers 2000-07-01
- 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
- Secure Your Supplier Alliances Through a Gain-Sharing Practice
- The concept of supplier alliance provides an incentive to both the buying and supplier organizations to focus on continually re-evaluating, re-energizing, and enhancing their business relationship. All aspects of value delivery are scrutinized, including specification design, order processing, inbound transportation, inventory management, obsolescence programs, material yield, forecasting and inventory planning,...
- White papers 2002-08-01
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