The guidelines for designing an incentive compensation system that will help drive successful strategy execution include

a. making minimal use of nonmonetary incentives and rewarding people for diligently performing their assigned duties.

b. having an outside wage and salary expert administer the system, so that there is no doubt as to its fairness and impartiality.

c. having a bonus and incentive plan that applies to managers only (employees should generally not be included in incentive pay plans but should have attractive wages and salaries).

d. making the payoff for meeting or beating performance targets a major, not minor, piece of the total compensation package.