{
  "title": "Rewarding the team rather than the individual: under what conditions?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/recompenses-collectives-performance-equipe-sion-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-05-14",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "A team bonus can support performance. Research nevertheless invites managers to examine what it rewards and how far people's work actually depends on one another.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Team Performance",
  "place": {
    "name": "Sion",
    "region": "Valais",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Yvonne Garbers and Udo Konradt (2014, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology) synthesised research on individual and team-based financial incentives."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Aligning the work and the reward",
      "point": "Ruth Wageman (1995, Administrative Science Quarterly) studied the relationships between task interdependence, outcome interdependence and group effectiveness in a technical maintenance setting."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that individual bonuses simply need to be replaced with a shared bonus."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence does not settle",
      "point": "The meta-analysis brings together different settings and performance measures, while the field study concerns a particular organisation."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Sion",
      "point": "Within SHR's « Performance d'équipe » programme, one possible application in Sion is to examine an existing team reward before proposing a new one."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Konradt",
      "year": "2014",
      "source": "Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Wageman",
      "year": "1995",
      "source": "Administrative Science Quarterly"
    }
  ],
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    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation-performance-equipe-sion",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/sion",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}