Motivating Employees Through Compensation and Benefits

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.

Support your response with at least two to three scholarly references.

Write your initial response in a minimum of 300 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Beginning Saturday, March 22, 2014, post your responses to the appropriate Discussion Area. Contribute to our discussion of employee benefit packages and their relation with the increased productivity and motivation.

Through Wednesday, March 26, 2014, comment on at least two of your peers’ responses. Do the following when responding to your peers:

• Read all posts from your peers.
• Explain how their experiences differ from yours.
• Provide substantive comments by contributing new, relevant information or quotes from course readings, Web sites, or other sources; building on the remarks or questions of others; or sharing practical examples of key concepts from your experiences, professional or personal.