Managing through incentives

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Incentives are the most powerful tools executives can use to improve worker performance. This is particularly true in today's empowered workplace, where incentives can ensure that workers apply their initiative toward company goals. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Richard McKenzie andDwight Lee show how to select the right incentives and how to use them for best results. Generously illustrated with examples from business, industry, government, academia, and professional sports, this superb volume offers a comprehensive overview of incentives, both in theory and in practice, providing a wealth of ideas managers can use to get employees to work harder, smarter,and more cooperatively. Much of the book is quite eye-opening...

subjects: Industrial management,  Business,  Employee motivation,  Motivation (Psychology),  Incentives (Psychology),  Incentives in industry,  Nonfiction,  Incentive (psychology)