By Kathleen M Joyce - According to a study released earlier this year, the right incentive programs can boost performance among teams of employees by as much as 44%, and among individual workers by as much as 25%. (Added: 30-May-2005 Hits: 538 )

By Michelle Neely Martinez - Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Inc. (RPR), one of the world's top-ranked pharmaceutical companies, has come up with a better way not only to rate performance, but also to reward employees. RPR's new two-part performance management system is the brainchild of Hadia Lefavre, senior vice president of human resources, and David Brandies, the company's vice president of performance management, compensation, benefits mobility and human resource information systems. (Added: 11-Feb-2005 Hits: 674 )

By Joan Lloyd - Many managers get sucked dry by poor performers and mismatched performers, when what they should be doing is studying what their best performers do well and helping them to perform even better. Instead of looking for the best practices of their star performers, they are drawing up performance plans for people who aren’t cutting it. In other words, rather than encouraging good performers to be great, these managers spend their time helping poor performers become average. (Added: 19-Sep-2001 Hits: 359 )

By T. Wilson - In a marketplace that is characterized as the "war for talent," companies in every industry are facing the most difficult time in memory for attracting and retaining people. So what are the trends in the marketplace? How is this "battle for the best" being played out? What are the more successful companies doing? These questions will be the focus of this Fall, 2000, Wilson Group newsletter: Rewards that Work. (Added: 16-Dec-2002 Hits: 536 )