QAspire

AUGUST 22, 2010

These meals act as an incentive for these kids to come to the school and study. The meal is an incentive for them to continue their education. First, some background information. Akshaya Patra is an Indian NGO that provides mid day meals to about 1.2 million children across India on all school days. 600 (or ~$13).

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Quality Innovation NGO Supply Chain 156

Deming Institute

MARCH 14, 2017

Gipsie loved to travel to experience diverse cultures and history, taking many trips to Europe, Africa and Asia. She finished her teaching career with a few years at Belmont University in Nashville before retiring. Gipsie was a student and close colleague of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. She was a lifelong learner and read voraciously.

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Deming Sharpe Seminar Quality 28

QAspire

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Incentives are most often counterproductive. Best, Tanmay By John Hunter , October 11, 2010 @ 4:44 pm coaching is very important. And far too little focus is given to coaching. I am worried about “strategic reward systems.&# John Hunter´s last blog.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 5, 2020

During a wage freeze, Natalie Wolowitz, executive vice president at an Illinois-based staffing agency, suggests looking at other aspects of the job that can be negotiated – such as flextime, a LinkedIn or edX learning account, stipend for holiday travel, tuition reimbursement or stock options, etc. Are you interested in this job title?

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Flextime Trends Incentives Career 98

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The lower reimbursement and need to provide 24/7 coverage that makes a primary-care-based system so appealing to policy makers and others has long been shown to be a source of burnout and challenges in getting medical students to choose careers in primary care. The last thing that this group of providers desires is more responsibility.

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Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 22, 2020

Some simple ways to achieve this include offering rewards and incentives, holding regular career development meetings, and maintaining a welcoming, supportive atmosphere in the workplace. Businesses should also be aware that negative feedback travels extremely fast and far in the modern world, particularly via social media platforms.

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Short-term Customer Loyalty Advertising Long-term 69

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. And he believed that managers wrongly apply incentive pay plans, forced rankings, and all sorts of carrots and sticks to create the illusion of control without solving root performance problems.

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Deming Management Senge Taylorism 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Bigger payouts will either make it easier for these executives to leave — as in El-Erian’s case — or, for those in less senior roles, create incentives to “hang on” in a state of passive disaffection. He had also suffered from weight gain brought on by continual travel and client work.

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CIO CFO Crisis Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

New research from Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage , also shows that contrary to conventional wisdom, vacation just might be great for our career , too. Travel Association has deemed reasons for not taking time off, and for working on vacation, as symptoms of being a “work martyr.”

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Policies Creativity Report Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? They had incentives to do so, but they could easily refuse. At a time of profound volatility in the U.S.

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System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. A new program inside VA called “Diffusion of Excellence” provides incentives for managers to share and adopt best practices.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Steve Farber

AUGUST 26, 2016

He raced through training and attacked the phone with the enthusiasm and compassion of a taunted pit bull, setting a record for new loans in a single month in the first month of his career. I’m a believer in incentives and disincentives, too; I like a little friendly competition among the team. Cam was golden week in and week out.

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Open-book Emotional Intelligence Travel Learning-by-Doing 40