I enjoyed our group discussion today. We talked about different ways a company can reward their employees via pay plans. We talked about piece rat, merit based pay raise, and a number of other methods that can be used to motivate employees via pay. I think that when performance is directly linked to pay, employees perform much better. However, this is a difficult task. Finding a method that appropriately measures performance is often difficult among organizations, and this is one of the biggest struggle in directly relating pay to performance.