Rewards
Incentives are a good way to get spectacular results out of employees. I had been in jobs where if we had perfect attendance for a certain period of time we got a bonus. As a result we were never late, because we wanted the bonuses. However my boss was handing out to many bonuses and there was no penalty for tardiness. So she decided to switch from the bonus to a punishment: 3 late arrivals was a loss of a ½ days pay. While there was a high turnover rate at the job and no one noticed the change I did. As a manager you have to be careful how you do rewards, if they are to good then you can run into problems. However losing a half days pay is incentive, but it dose not promote the same type of eagerness that a reward does. Make sure that the incentive is well balanced otherwise it will backfire and you will have more problems then you started with
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