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