Implement Gainsharing Agreements in Your Academic and Administrative Units
Higher education business leaders can use gainsharing agreements to incentivize more prudent spending and grow central strategic reserves. Under these agreements, units split any budget surpluses with central administration. This mitigates perverse incentives for units to either amass unnecessarily large reserves or squander every remaining budget dollar at year-end.
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Higher education business leaders can use gainsharing agreements to incentivize more prudent spending and grow central strategic reserves. Under these agreements, units split any budget surpluses with central administration. This mitigates perverse incentives for units to either amass unnecessarily large reserves or squander every remaining budget dollar at year-end.
In this guide:
- Make the case for gainsharing
- Design and structure gainsharing agreements
- Ease the transition to gainsharing for stakeholders
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