Redefining hospital performance: a new commitment to competitiveness through employee involvement.
This issue of DRG Monitor describes a productivity enhancement system that is decentralized to the work unit level in the hospital. The system depends on a budgeted excess bonus pool that triggers team-based bonuses when unit personnel positively influence indicators of work unit productivity and work unit indicators of the quality of health care services.
D004465:Economic Competition; D004526:Efficiency; D004649:Employee Incentive Plans; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008332:Management Quality Circles; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010559:Personnel Management; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States