Axa Sun Life moves from team to individual pay

REWARDING PERFORMANCE

Axa Sun Life moves from team to individual pay

Team reward may well offer some important advantages, but its adoption and use is by no means a simple task. Such a move can be high-risk. Indeed, Axa Sun Life ran across some stumbling blocks, according to a report by Industrial Relations Services. So, its now moved to a system linked to individual performance.

Axa Sun Life, the UK life and pensions arm of global insurance giant Axa, employs 3,500 people in its Bristol head office and regional centres. Although team pay served the company well during the 1990s, this approach was seen as incompatible with its new business strategy. What’ s more, team pay was starting to cause a few headaches.

What you will find in this IRS case study

  • an analysis of the problems of team pay at Axa Sun Life
  • the company’ s revised reward arrangements
  • details of the communication exercise
  • lessons for employers involved in pay restructuring.

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Title: From team to individual pay , IRS Employment Trends 744/Pay and Benefits, 28 January 2002.

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Posted 1 March 2002