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- Why work incentives don't work
- A lot of companies use bonuses and awards to raise employee productivity. But, according to Alfie Kohn, author of the book Punished By Reward: The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, As, Praise, and Other Bribes, awards don't work in the long run. Kohn states "People aren't naturally inclined to...
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- Why work incentives don't work
- I'm wondering...what your motivation is for bringing this topic up? For the most part I believe that incentives are necessary for the masses, but for educated, independent thinking workers they are worthless. Case in point, my current employer pays a monthly incentive to all workers (and a commission to those...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- Outsourcing IT not quite as easy as it sounded
- Limited outsourcing is goodI have to agree that long term outsourcing is definitely not the way to go. Not to mention, language, distance, etc., but there is also an incentive for internal IT that is not shared by outsourced companies. The tech on the phone deals with several...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-14
- Microsoft denies role in British Linux flop
- Given the UK government IT track recordthey'll make an arse of it whatever they use.The salaries they pay in local government I'm surprised when they manage to get "Hello World" implemented.To be brutally honest the level of skill, I've percei
- Discussion threads 2006-11-27
- Did you know you can mark answers helpful?
- One of the new features we added to Forums during the revamp was the ability to mark an answer "Helpful."However, since the revamp, I haven't noticed many answers getting flagged as "Helpful."Of course, this could be the age-old problem of people not giving feedback. However, I'm betting that we haven't...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-18
- CA looks to tech squads to sell security wares
- Incentive program is the first of its kindCA has a new program called Onsite PC Protection Program that offers incentives to PC rescue services to sell CA's security software to consumers and small businesses. This initiative offers an online interface to manage sales and a welcome kit with $1,500 worth...
- Discussion threads 2006-08-31
- Integrating Suppliers Into New Product Development
- This sample chapter from Supply Chain Redesign: Transforming Supply Chains into Integrated Value Systems offers managers practical guidance for working cooperatively and effectively with the best organizations in their supply chain. It asserts that organizations need to capitalize on the positive aspects of supplier involvement, recognizing: The supplier may have...
- Download resources 2006-05-15
- Image: So that's where the profits go - company gift swag revealed
- You don't really have to leave home to accumulate logo-bearing knick-knacks. Your own organization may keep your workstation piled high with little giveaways. Whether it's a token of thanks, an incentive or reward for special effort, or a cheap trinket masquerading as a holiday gift--at least one of those trinkets...
- Image galleries 2006-03-02
- Unfair Incentive Pay
- Unfair Incentive PayMy company I work for financial institution has just rolled out an incentive based pay scale for the VP's and Managers of the different branches. Basically, if the loans grow, deposits grow, expenses go down and etc. etc. etc. they get the chance of an additional $500....
- Discussion threads 2005-01-12
- Incentives and perils of at-risk pay for project managers
- At-risk pay programs can be innovative and bold, but will they work for project managers? Tom Mochal discusses the issues you should consider before implementing such a program.TechRepublic columnist Tom Mochal receives dozens of e-mails each week from members with questions about project management problems. He shares his tips on...
- Technical articles 2002-09-16
- Capture the value of your reuse environment
- Building a successful reuse environment demands considerable time and effort. And sooner or later, you'll need to quantify the benefits that reuse is providing to your organization. Use this list of metrics to help make your case.To build a successful reuse environment and culture, you need to establish good reuse...
- Technical articles 2002-03-06
- A successful reuse environment requires new roles and incentives
- The key to creating a lasting reuse environment is having people responsible for completing the tasks unique to reuse and motivating staff members to make it work. Learn what roles and incentives should be in place to make reuse successful.If your CIO says that you are going to create a...
- Technical articles 2002-02-25
- Managers rank volume price breaks as best purchasing incentive
- If you're a hardware vendor, offer volume discounts if you want to boost sales. That's the conclusion to be drawn from these Polling Place results. Take a look at how other incentives fared.
- Technical articles 2001-08-01
- How do you motivate team members?
- Share your innovative methods for injecting energy into your team members. You may win a TechRepublic T-shirt if your suggestion gets used in an upcoming column.A savvy mentor told me early in my management career that people will always do what they have been given an incentive to do.People may...
- Technical articles 2000-09-19
- Do Managers Use the Valuation Allowance Account to Manage Earnings Around Certain Earnings Targets?
- This paper investigates whether managers use the deferred tax asset valuation allowance account VAA to manage earnings around three earnings targets: to report a positive profit, to report an earnings increase, and to meet or beat the mean analyst forecast. Early research on the VAA found little evidence of earnings...
- White papers 2000-01-01
- Create incentives to learn
- Many employees feel they have all the skills they need to do their jobs. However, they don't realize that, with the constant change in technology, their skills can become outdated faster than they think. TrainingRepublic reader Thomas Roncevic shares his thoughts on how to get your students to class for...
- Technical articles 1999-10-27
- Using Layered Video to Provide Incentives in P2P Live Streaming
- This paper designed a distributed incentive mechanism for mesh-pull P2P live streaming networks. In the system, a video is encoded into layers with lower layers having more importance. The system is heterogeneous with peers having different uplink bandwidths. They have designed a distributed protocol in which a peer contributing more...
- White papers 2007-08-31
- Open Source Software: The Success of an Alternative Intellectual Property Incentive Paradigm
- Intellectual property protection in the United States is based on an incentive system. The protections provided by intellectual property law are designed to produce economic incentives to "Promote the progress of science and useful arts." The open source software movement, which has gained publicity as the popularity of the Linux...
- White papers 2006-09-29
- SpySaver: Using Incentives to Address Spyware
- This paper presents SpySaver - a novel anti-spyware approach that reduces the incentive to deploy spyware. The approach does not prevent spyware installations, nor does it recover from them. Instead, SpySaver decreases the value of the information spyware collects by creating counterfeit information. Goal is to generate enough counterfeit information...
- White papers 2008-08-22
- Economics of Malware: Epidemic Risks Model, Network Externalities and Incentives
- Malicious softwares or malwares for short have become a major security threat. While originating in criminal behavior, their impact is also influenced by the decisions of legitimate end users. Getting agents in the Internet, and in networks in general, to invest in and deploy security features and protocols is a...
- White papers 2009-05-26
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