Gainsharing Gainsharing programs offer a means for sharing productivity gains with employees, and are based on group or plant performance that does not become part of the employees base salary. Conditions that should be in place for gainsharing to be effective include: management commitment the need to change or a process of continuous improvement management's acceptance and encouragement of employee input high levels of cooperation and interaction employment security information sharing on productivity and costs goal setting commitment and agreement of all parties standards that are understandable, fair, and related to objectives.