Any Incentive System Designed to Improve Employee Productivity and Satisfaction

question 124

Multiple Choice

Any incentive system designed to improve employee productivity and satisfaction:

• A)must minimize peer and management pressure on individual employees.
• B)should provide a significant reward to top performers but avoid rewarding non-performers.
• C)must create goals that are almost impossible to reach so that employees will stretch to meet the goals.
• D)should make employee satisfaction a much more significant factor than employee productivity - weighted about 2-to-1.
• E)should work to avoid any possible negative consequences for non-performance by making sure everyone has some merit increase each year.

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