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How effective is incentive pay?(Executive Briefing)(Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management)(In What Were They Thinking? : Unconventional Wisdom About Management)
HRMagazine, January, 2008 by Pomeroy, Ann
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The return on incentive pay depends on what the employer wants to gain by paying for performance, says Jeffrey Pfeffer, author and professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Pfeffer maintains that the current management practice of setting up an incentive compensation program can have unintended, undesirable consequences, particularly if incentives are offered mainly to influence employee behavior.
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Pfeffer has written widely on this topic, including a recent book: In What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management (Harvard ...
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