Gainsharing plans are one of the most effective programs for motivating blue-collar and white-collar clerical workforces to better performance. In a 1983 report, the General Accounting Office of Congress conducted an investigation of programs designed to improve productivity and quality. Its report cited gainsharing programs as “...the wave of the future” because they unite an organization’s workforce in the goal of boosting operational performance, which, on the average, climbed by 17–22% annually.