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What is the Difference Between Benefits, Perks, Gifts, Awards, Incentives, and Rewards?

Empuls

While most companies talk about employee perks, benefits, incentives, gifts, awards, and rewards in the same breath, the truth is, they each have their distinct characteristics and impact people in different ways. What are incentives? An incentive aims at improving the overall performance of an organization.

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Performance Appraisal: The Ultimate Guide

Analytics in HR

It can also be referred to as the performance review, performance evaluation, or employee appraisal. Performance appraisals are a platform to provide feedback, offer a formal moment in time to evaluate job performance, and help distribute raises and bonuses among employees. In my view, this is a mistake.

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9 Ways to Create the Best Possible Employee Incentive Options

Kazoo

As an employee incentive, cash isn’t king. As part of Kazoo’s research on rewards and recognition systems that work, we uncovered how to make employee incentives effective. Here are nine ways to create the best possible employee incentive options at your company. There is no one-size-fits all employee incentive.

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Why the Best Employee Incentive Programs Succeed

Kazoo

If you want to put one of best employee incentive programs in your workplace, you might need to step out of your own comfort zone and move away from cash rewards. Traditionally, employee incentives programs use cash rewards tied to a specific individual achievement. Why cash doesn’t always work in incentive plans.

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What is Continuous Performance Management (CPM)?

Engagedly

It’s called Continuous Performance Management (CPM) and it is changing the way managers think about their jobs as well as the way organizations manage productivity. How Does Continuous Performance Management Work in the Workplace Setting? Overcoming challenges.

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Quick Reminder on Performance Management Effectiveness

Compensation Cafe

I recently ran into a study on effective performance management practices that I want to share with you. Not because it says anything really new, but because it does a great job on focus and insight, attributes we can all use when it comes to performance management. Procedural fairness is defined as, ". .

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Cafe Classic: Excessively Successful Incentives

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: In this Classic cautionary tale, Jim Brennan (using the 2016 Wells Fargo incentive disaster as his beginning "case in point") reminds us of how easily even reward plans designed with the best intentions can misfire. The only thing worse than an incentive that doesn’t work is one that works all too well.