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incentivize tells a story.” For that reason, he adds, it’s a good idea to include values like teamwork or customer relations in incentive plans that are difficult to measure but key to a company’s success. That goes for non-monetary... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader

people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist." Thomas asserts that there needs to be an alignment of the interests of the organization and the interests of the individuals: "It is crucial that the View Details

Keywords: Management

15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

constant tension between employees and management. “We lived through a lot of strikes,” Stavros says. One of the changes the union was advocating for was profit sharing with hourly employees. “Can you believe I have no incentive to care... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

26 Nov 2019
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The Ritual Effect

Source: Norton Source: Norton Professor Michael Norton studies the ways in which rituals can influence human behavior. In his research, he has found that people establish rituals to enhance their enjoyment of something or to improve their success and don’t like to... View Details

Keywords: rituals

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

environments that shaped the commercial opportunity. The UK offered a framework that provided an incentive of around 50 percent of your income. Israel offered a feed-in-tariff approach. Through dedication, we have become the largest... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

trainee. “The first thing they told us was, ‘The good news is that despite the big reengineering effort, you guys are safe. The bad news is that you’re going to help us do it, and get to our number.’” Keen wanted to prove himself to fit in, he says. When an View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

which is a really interesting incentive as well. But otherwise that they can actually pay the carbon cost themselves I think is super interesting. Because the ultimate best case scenario would be if carbon cost was baked into the economy... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

owned and operated by the same company, have the same IT systems, and have the same incentives for employees. Much of my research is focused on identifying the sources of this variation." She has found that problems in human-resources... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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