incentive program
- noun
- /ɪnˈsɛntɪv ˈprəʊɡræm/
- Many organizations implement an incentive program to boost productivity and reward high performers.
- incentive program offers
- implement incentive programs
- economic incentive program
The government likes to come around and do these incentive programs to give you discounts on the taxes you owe in your retirement account.
- The government likes to come around and do these incentive programs to give you discounts on the taxes you owe in your retirement account.
Examples
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The General Assembly enacted a modest incentive program built around the 12 measures developed by the Performance Measures Task Force.
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Staff members experienced guided practice in decision analysis while developing an incentive program for students.
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How do we create incentive programs at work?
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During the first two years of the incentive program, the teaching staff remained the same.
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Participation in state and federal incentive programs has so far been limited.
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Miami Beach has an incentive program for film and print productions.
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Many classroom teachers, however, still wish to adopt an incentive program.
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Lincoln Electric has a world-famous incentive program and is well known for its sense of employee participation.
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Solavei offers all members a 60-day incentive program that starts upon their enrollment.
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The company introduced an incentive program to encourage employees to meet their sales targets.
Synonyms
A plan that gives rewards to encourage employees to reach work goals
Antonyms
How Motivating
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'incentive' (a reward or motivator) with 'program' (an organized scheme or plan); together they transparently denote a scheme to motivate behavior. This noun–noun composition is common in business contexts and across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
The noun incentive program comes from a simple picture: a program is a planned set of actions and an incentive is a small reward or push. So a company gives a planned set of rewards to 'motivate' people to reach goals, which is why the phrase means a formal plan to encourage better work or results.