Having a good salary and benefits package is great, but having extra incentives for a job well done makes workers feel appreciated. That decreases turnover and increases profits.
Offering incentives for a good job creates a sense of caring or kinship in the worker and, over time, it increases the worker’s loyalty and their investment into the welfare of the business.
Having a tangible reward tied to their performance is a simple method of motivation and combats boredom.
They are easy to include in any industry or working environment. The rules which govern how the incentives can be earned must be clear and precise.
May Encourage Deception: Employees may look for ways to make their performance appear to be good when it isn’t.
Misaligned Incentives: poorly conceived ones may incentivize risky and irresponsible behavior that undermines the mission of the company.
Can Lead to Conflict: iI competitive workplaces with limited rewards, employees may engage in bad behavior to get ahead or become convinced that pursuing incentives is a zero-sum proposition and become resentful.
The Peter Principle is the observation that if people are good at doing their jobs they will be promoted. It follows that eventually, everyone will be doing a job that they are not good at (otherwise they would have been promoted).
It refers to an observation wherein people who perform well in their job gets promoted until eventually, they will reach a stage where they are incompetent for that job.
A study looked at promotions and performance of some 40,000 sales workers across 131 firms.
It showed that the best salespeople as measured by sales revenue are more likely to be promoted (top figure) but their value added as managers actually declines in their sales revenues (bottom figure).
To assign the suitable person to the managerial role.
To motivate workers excel in their current roles.
However, If firms promoted workers on the basis of managerial potential rather than current performance, employees may have fewer incentives to work as hard.
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Happy employees are compulsory for a growing business.
A study on organizational success revealed that employees who feel happy in the workplace are 65% more energetic than employees who don’t. They are two times more productive and are more likely to sustain their jobs over a long period of time.