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Do Your Incentive Plans Motivate Choking?

Compensation Cafe

Could it be that we are designing and communicating incentives for our highest performance all wrong? This study specifically looked at the impact of incentives on motor and neurological performance in high-pressure situations. The real question should be what this may mean for future incentive plan design.

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Gen Z in the workplace: how technology can increase happiness at work

Homebase

Gen Z is the population born between 1997 and 2012. They value stability, prestige, and status in the workplace —this is the generation known for working at a select few companies during the course of their career rather than job hopping. Gen Z is the population that was born between the years of 1997 and 2012.

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59 Awesome Employee Engagement Ideas & Activities for 2018 (Plus 10 New Bonus Ideas)

SnackNation

A study done by Deloitte in 2012 found that retention is 25% higher for employees who have engaged in company-sponsored mentorship. Create some healthy competition and reward excellent performance with incentives for successful goal achievement. Offer points for taking work-related open source courses. Celebrate personal wins.

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11 Real-Life Human Resources Examples

Analytics in HR

Performance enablers Through targeted training, clear evaluation measurements, and strategic incentives, HR influences performance management that drives continuous career growth and development. Of course, not all organizations can afford to do the same for every employee. But they must deliver results.

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5 Truths: Insourced Leaders Promote From Within

TalentCulture

Perhaps this is par for the course for technical recruiters, or maybe it’s a sign of something different: companies have pulled the corporate ladder out of reach. Here are five ideas to make the next rung of the corporate ladder easier to reach: Reinstate employee referral bonuses. Our perception of ‘meaningful work’ is different.

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13 Top Recruiting Strategies to Use in 2020

Digital HR Tech

Just make sure your program includes the following elements: Incentives – This can be cash incentives (they usually work best), but extra holidays or other types of perks also work. Slowly but surely, the cohort born between the mid-nineties and 2012 is becoming a bigger part of the global workforce.

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Cafe Classic: Newton’s Three Laws of Compensation Motion

Compensation Cafe

In this Cafe Classic, originally published in July of 2012, our own "mad scientist" Dan Walter shares an important physics lesson from no less than Sir Isaac Newton. . Basically, this says that once something is moving it will continue moving in the same manner unless, of course, something acts to stop or change that movement.