financial incentives
Monetary carrots dangled
Financial incentives are monetary rewards or benefits designed to motivate specific behaviors or decisions.
Governments offer tax breaks as financial incentives for homeownership or charitable giving.
Employers use bonuses, commissions, and profit-sharing to encourage performance.
The company offered financial incentives to employees who met their sales targets.
The term often appears in policy debates about whether financial incentives actually produce desired outcomes.
- profit-sharingDistributing earnings among workers
- bonusReward beyond expectation
- sign-on bonusPayment for accepting employment
- cash bonusMonetary reward beyond wages
- merit payCompensation tied to performance
salary · stipends · commission · performance bonus · year-end bonus · tax deduction · tax break · inducements · rebate · carrots · subsidy · royalties · loan forgiveness · grants · rewards · allowances · stock options · dividends
- cooperativesco-op, credit union, worker co-op, housing co-op, co-ops
financial incentivesintrinsic motivation
Desire from within oneself
moral suasion · sense of duty · civic duty · ethical obligations · moral duty
financial incentivesfinancial penalties
Monetary sanctions for violations
monetary penalties · fines · economic sanctions · taxes · fees
financial incentivesintrinsic motivation
Desire from within oneself
internal drive · self-motivation · self-actualization · calling · vocation