Abstract:
The challenge for companies now a day is to deliver quickly and flexibly new quality products
and services, in order to be able to respond to greater and changing demands from clients. A teambased
payment system is encouraged employees to work collaboratively, to achieve goals and to
share resources and information rather than compete for them. Therefore complex organizations
require employee collaboration to succeed. For the success of an organization, performance is a
key factor. It provides a means to improve organizational performance by linking and aligning
individual, team and organizational objectives and results. It also provides a means to recognize
and reward good performance and to manage under-performance. So employee reward systems
refer to programs set up by a company to reward performance and motivate employees on
individual and/or group levels. This research was carried out as an empirical study to investigate
the relationship between team based payment system and organizational performance with special
reference to MAS Active Asialine Garment Manufacturing Organization in Sri Lanka. This is a
mass garment manufacturing organization in Sri. Lanka. It has used so many strategies to improve
employee performance. Team based payment system is one of newly implemented strategy in the
organization. Therefore the research problem is highlighted as follow. What effect does the team
based payment system to the organizational performance? While this research was based on
qualitative and quantitative data, Used sample of employees in the organization to collect
qualitative data and administered questionnaires among the employees to find their attitudes
towards this new system. Further formal interviews were held with the managers and held some
observations. Quantitative dates were collected from organizational sources to compare the
existing performance levels of the organization. According to the research findings organizational
team based payment system was favourably impacted to individual and group performance,
employee satisfaction, employee motivation and organizational performance. Conclusion of the
study mentions that the organization should maintain their team payment system furthermore
within the organization to accomplish organizational goals.
