title: Engaging staff with team-based performance sharing.
abstract: Team-based performance sharing (TPS) is a tool that hospitals can use to achieve higher levels of performance by tapping into innovative thinking within a unit's staff regarding opportunities to improve performance. In a recent pilot implementation of TPS, employees were able to share in the financial gains from recommended and approved improvements, as long as patient satisfaction remained above a certain specified threshold. Proposals for improvements were vetted by a dedicated crossfunctional team composed of unit staff, who had to be in full agreement regarding the merits of a proposal for it to be accepted.
authors.affiliation: Masternak & Associates, Medina, Ohio, USA. robert@masternak.com
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Masternak
mesh_terms: D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009515:New Jersey; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*