Behavioral Economics Lessons for Smarter Incentive Plan Design
Behavior Economics is a field of study that considers the influence that psychological, emotional, and social factors have on decision making. Although it is often applied to how consumers make buying decisions but can also be applied to the design of variable pay...
Developing Effective Qualitative Goals
When More Than Quantitative Incentive Criteria is Needed It is a common practice to select between two to five metrics to use for incentive criteria. Incentive criteria are usually a combination of financial, non-financial and strategic metrics. When the eligible...
Four Considerations in Making Short-term Incentive Plan Decisions Due to Covid-19
By Susan Malanowski Short-term incentive plans have a performance period of one year or less. The most common performance periods are annually and quarterly. For 2019 calendar year plans, the last quarterly or annual payment was made by March 15 of this year in order...