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A Practical Application – Performance Reviews

Joseph Lalonde

For many people, performance reviews seem like rather soulless exercises driven by organizational imperatives. Designed to measure performance in order to determine whether employees have met their goals and thus have contributed to the organization’s results, they are usually highly structured, formulaic, and data-oriented.

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The Changing Landscape of C-Suite Executive Tenures: Insights and Implications

N2Growth Blog

This trend is evident in the increasing use of performance-based incentives in executive compensation packages, which tie a significant portion of executive pay to specific, measurable goals. Companies are increasingly focusing on agility and adaptability, seeking leaders who can navigate rapidly changing business environments.

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Recognition Can Motivate Us At Work

The Horizons Tracker

Research from Rotman reminds us, however, that subjective performance evaluations are not without risk and can foster feelings of unfairness when they don’t go our way. “But we also see negative performance associated with them and a subjective decision has a potentially demotivating effect.”

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Motivation: To Do or Not to Do

Leading Blog

For example, Michael and Afua both value money, and they both negotiate strongly for more compensation in performance reviews. Both Michael and Afua can be motivated with financial incentives, and they can also be motivated by framing a discussion about that incentive in the context of what they are moving away from or toward.

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Structure Sales Compensation Plans That Can Fire Up Your Employees

HR Digest

Due to the quota-based performance measures that follow the work of sales representatives, employers often prefer to provide sales incentive plans to motivate them to perform better. Sometimes these are given as additional bonuses for good performance, while other times these are tied into entire salary compensation plans.

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Cash Incentives Won’t Make Us Healthier by Alfie Kohn

Deming Institute

In this article (and the embedded presentation included below) Alfie Kohn explores how misuse of incentives, driven by a failure to understand the psychology of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation leads to failure: Cash Incentives Won’t Make Us Healthier. But it’s clearly something that incentives can’t buy. was difficult.

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Healthy Raises

Lead Change Blog

As leaders of their respective organizations, they need to be held to high standards and their reward should be closely correlated to the firm’s performance. Just like performance review, it drives incentive pay. While the shareholders approved all these pay packages, their effect is only felt in the coming years.