¶ … Incentive Plans Cannot Work
Employees of a particular corporation have to perform their job duties, for which they receive the salary. The motivational aspect, or in other words, what motivates an employee to do his assignments in a quantitative, qualitative and in time manner, is a very debated subject among Human Resources specialists, psychologists and managers. We will discuss a few contra-arguments for using an incentives motivational system, proposing in the end an optimal solution.
Workers, both at superior or inferior level of the corporation, must be motivated in the work. However, not all incentives are well perceived by the employees. Financial motivations, in the form of bonuses, trips, other facilities, distort the working relationship between colleagues resulting to tensions. Also the financial incentives create pressure on the individual for performing a certain task for which he will additionally be paid. This may reach its objectives on the short -term, when for different reasons, the material aspect may prevail. But on the long-term, the stressful situation of material motivation can not last very long. From different studies and research paper conducted in the field, we find out that employees feel manipulated to do a certain assignment, which his superior could not do or does not want to do it. For this reason, he is entitled to an additional sum of money, bonuses and other motivational elements. Also, on the long-term, people will tend to lose focus on what makes them perform their daily activities - the passion for their work and not the salary and the compensation packages.
A solution for solving this issue would be that managers will implement an organizational framework that will favor team work and collaboration, offer incentives for original ideas, both at the individual and collective level and make the employee explore different methods from which the company may benefit from. This is the right alternative, so as to achieve long - term equilibrium between company's and employee's expectations and needs.
