employee incentive program

References to ecology are turning up in annual reports, corporate newsletters and employee incentive programs.

He said employee incentive programs had already been changed to encourage improving the profitability of each loan, with less emphasis on growth.

Employee incentive programs are programs used to increase overall employee performance.

Mystery shopping organizations advise that their research should only be used for employee incentive programs, and that punishment or firing is an inappropriate use of mystery-shopper data.

However, court-appointed representatives for Nortel's former employees, who are creditors in the Ontario bankruptcy court, have signed an agreement to not oppose any employee incentive program.

During his eight-year tenure he created the Employee Incentive Program, drawing on ideas from City and School District employees to improve the efficiency of the city.

In Essentials of Organizational Behavior, Robbins and Judge examine recognition programs as motivators, and identify five principles that contribute to the success of an employee incentive program:

In addition, he said, the airline will feature a one-hour recording of "Suds" songs on their in-flight soundtrack, and Procter & Gamble is buying 2,000 tickets for an employee incentive program.

In an interview late last week, he said the company began struggling earlier this year after cuts in spending by its biggest corporate clients, which had formerly bought flooz to use as awards in employee incentive programs.

Goldman is also receiving state incentives worth an estimated $164 million over 10 years, under the New Jersey Business Employee Incentive Program, which gives employers back up to 80 percent of their employees' state income tax.

"For this kind of thing to make sense, these companies have to do everything from consumer product packaging and point-of-sale promotions to internal employee incentive programs," said Rick Burton, assistant director of the Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon.

Mr. Gross said some studies suggested that every $1 invested in an employee incentive program could lead to a $2 increase in revenue, but he cautioned that so many variables had to be considered in making that calculation that conclusions were extremely tentative.

Mr. Baker also sent a letter to the S.E.C. asking it to examine $200 million in deferred expenses in 1998 and whether, as Ofheo concluded, it was done to meet earnings projections that allowed executives to win their maximum bonuses under an employee incentive program.