Assignment 1: Discussion—Motivating Employees Through Compensation and Benefits
How can HR staff work with organizational managers to create an effective incentive and motivation plan to make employees more effective and efficient?
Use the Argosy University online library and your textbooks to read about HR incentives. Based on your assigned readings for this module, consider the relationship between employee compensation packages and productivity in your current or previous organization.
Next, respond to the following:
What compensation and benefits have been used as incentives for employee productivity and motivation? Provide specific details and show the link between the compensation or benefit and the increased productivity or motivation with facts and figures (without violating any confidentiality rules).
Evaluate how effective the compensation and benefits were at motivating employees and increasing productivity.
By the due date assigned, post your initial response to the Discussion Area below. Contribute to our discussion of employee benefit packages and their relation with the increased productivity and motivation.
Through the end of the module, comment on at least two of your peers’ responses. Do the following when responding to your peers:
Write your initial response in 300–500 words. Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail, include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA Style, and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation
