Gainsharing

Providing hourly employees with reward opportunities that are tied to their role in improving business performance.

Gainsharing

Providing hourly employees with reward opportunities that are tied to their role in improving business performance.

Client Challenges

You can’t afford a pay rate increase, but are open to a self-funding incentive plan.

Productivity is flat and the only improvements that ever get implemented are management-driven.

The organization is looking to reward employees for success in its process improvement initiatives (Six Sigma, Lean, Kaizen, etc.).

You are challenged by mandated customer concessions and need to enlist employees in cost reduction efforts.

Process improvements are coming from the same people year-after-year and you need to get broader participation in your improvement efforts.

Employees are becoming fed up with management's lack of interest in their ideas for improvement and are seeking a union solution.

Clearwater Can Help...

Develop gainsharing metrics/formulas to focus employees on current business priorities

Work with union and company leadership to develop an employee pay solution

Facilitate employee-driven gainsharing plan design in union and nonunion environments

Link employee pay to financial/operational gains and process improvements

Determine how to best connect every employee to business success

Conduct company 'gainsharing readiness' survey and compare to industry norms

Fun Fact

Fun Fact- Gainsharing

“A study of 663 organizations demonstrated that gainsharing generated $2,200 in unbudgeted gains per employee per year.”

- Consortium of Alternative Reward Strategies

Clearwater in the News

“[Clearwater] is teaching rank-and-file workers in tough jobs how to devise incentive plans. In the process, employees are being rewarded with things money can't buy- more dignity and a greater sense of purpose.”

— Fast Company Magazine

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Gainsharing Advantage

We believe gainsharing is an employee involvement program that ties pay to improvements in workforce productivity, not just a formula. And, we are just as comfortable in the Union Hall as in the Boardroom.