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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
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16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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WorldatWork (Total Rewards Association)

Research and Survey

 

A Joint Research Initiative between

PARC (Performance and Reward Center) and WorldatWork

 

Developing Performance Incentives and Sustaining Engagement in a Volatile Environment [1 November 2010]

November 2010

http://www.worldatwork.org/waw/adimLink?id=44335

[full-text, 42 pages]

 

This report offers:

• a reminder of how incentives have developed

• a summary of current thinking on how incentives influence engagement and motivation

• an update on the changes made to incentives by a selection of organizations as they faced the

recent recessionary environment

• interpretations of these developments, and

• observations and concluding questions.

 

 

Contents

A. Foreword: what’s on offer? 2

B. Executive summary: what’s the story? 3

C. The incentives journey: how have we got here? 4

D. Incentives and motivation/engagement: do incentives work? 10

E. The survey results: what’s been happening to incentives? 19

F. Interpreting the results: what do we make of this? 24

G. Observations and concluding questions 26

H. References 34

Appendix: Summaries of survey company actions 35

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