This blog is about incentive motivation
Incentives have been used as motivators since the beginning of time. The best example through the ages has been religion. Many generations have been motivated to certain actions that were dictated by religious beliefs. The incentive of going to Heaven is a great motivation. Everyone must remember that there were things you could or should not do according to your religious beliefs.
Through the years we can remember parents motivating children to achieve goals by offering incentives. (Get good grades & you can have a car or go on vacation.) The old donkey and the straw treatment is probably the clearest demonstration of incentive for motivation. To induce the donkey to move, they tied a stalk of straw in front of him and he kept trying to reach it. Another good example is the rabbit that the greyhound keeps trying to catch.
We can all think of incidents where someone has tried to motivate us by offering an incentive. However, we have pointed out just a few to impress the fact that has probably become second nature to most of us.
Industry, through the years, has used incentives to motivate sales by their sales people. Reach a goal and get a trip to wherever the company has arranged for them to go. This has produced positive effects most of the time. However there are some negatives to this incentive. The salesperson may not want to or be able to go when or where the company has planned to go; thus minimizing the effect of a an expensive incentive. The rest of the company resents the incentive being given only to the sales personnel. They rightly feel that it takes all the employees to work together to achieve positive results and not just the sales department. The company also has to arrange and pay for the trip before knowing the results. In spite of some of the negatives most corporations still love the idea of trip incentives to motivate sales.
Lately, more and more groups have decided to use trips to motivate areas other than sales. Newspapers offer contests to readers to get them to buy and win trips. Car rental companies combine with airlines to offer travel bonuses. Banks and Mortgage Brokers offer travel to people using their services. There are many more examples available but we think we have made the point.
What does all this lead up to? There is no question that incentives have a positive effect on motivation and that travel is the greatest incentive. targets every area of a business in offering travel incentives by TRAVEL CHECKS to motivate all employees.
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