Incentives encourage and assist landholders to conserve the natural resources on their land An example of an incentive is rate relief (see below) or being able to use the NRM work crew
An incentive is something that attracts or repels people and leads them to modify their behaviour in some way An economic incentive is something in the economic world that leads people to channel their efforts at economic production and consumption in certain directions
Measures designed to encourage certain actions or behavior These include inducements for the use of carpools, buses and other high-occupancy vehicles in place of single occupant automobile travel Examples include HOV lanes, preferential parking and financial incentives
(i)in learning theory, an object, person or situation that an individual believes will satisfy a motive; (ii) in selling, any bonus, reward, contest, recognition program, etc intended to motivate members of a sales team to greater efforts See Learning Process; Motive
Amounts rebated or credited, or special programs offered, to consumers or lessors to encourage the lease of certain vehicles
a motive or incitement to action Positive incentives refer to rewards offered in exchange for a certain course of action Negative incentives refer to punishments threatened if a forbidden course of action is taken
- factors that motivate and influence the behavior of households and businesses; prices, profits, and losses act as incentives for participants to take action in a market economy
benefits, or reduced costs, that motivate a decision maker in favor of a particular choice
A price reduction given to entice consumers to buy a product, or to stimulate the selling department (dealerships) to push more product onto the public There are several types of incentives Remember that they apply on the day of delivery, so buying a vehicle on a factory order may be risky from a pure incentive standpoint
devices that motivate people to take action, usually so as to increase economic efficiency (chapters 1 and 2)
Economic benefits given to providers to motivate efficiency in-patient care management
an inducement to stimulate or spur-on activity e g making grants available for environmental awareness raising is an incentive to develop actions in this area
an inducement to stimulate an activity e g making grants available for environmental awareness raising is an incentive to develop such actions
The payment to participants for coming to a focus group The amount varies dramatically, based on the difficulty of recruiting the participants Also called honorarium or co-op payment
If something is an incentive to do something, it encourages you to do it. There is little or no incentive to adopt such measures = inducement. something that encourages you to work harder, start a new activity etc (incentivum, from incinere , from canere )
That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on the passions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two powerful incentives to action
an incentive is something that influences people to act in certain ways An incentive system is a collection of incentives and a set of procedures for using them Organizations use incentive systems to motivate their employees (Kemmerer & Thiagarajan, 1992, p 312)
An external event or stimulus that is the target of a motivation, and that can serve as a reward Incentive theories of motivation stress the role of external targets in eliciting and satisfying motivational states