1. What is the positive effect of giving rewards to employees?
Rewards help to inform employees that their work meets customers' expectations. Further, job performance that is rewarded is likely to be repeated. When each employee more consistently satisfies customers, it helps to improve a company's competitive position because satisfied customers are more likely to come back. 2. Enumerate and define the types of monetary rewards. Pay/ salary – financial remuneration given in exchange for work performance that will help the organization attain its goals; example; weekly, monthly or hourly pay, piecework compensation, etc. Benefits – indirect forms of compensation given to employees/ workers for the purpose of improving the quality of their work and personal lives; health care benefits, retirement benefits, educational benefits, and others are examples of these. Incentives – rewards that are based upon a pay-for-performance philosophy; it establishes a baseline performance level that employees or groups of employees must reach in order to be given such reward or payment; examples: bonuses, merit pay, sales incentives, etc. Executive pay – a compensation package for executives of organizations which consists of five components: basic salary, bonuses, stock plans, benefits, and perquisites. Stock options – are plans that grant employees the right to buy a specific number of shares of the organization’s stock at a guaranteed price during a selected period of time. 3. What kind of reward would you prefer to receive, cash or stock option? Explain your preference. I’d prefer stock options. Money triggers us to think that we have a lot in our hands when in reality, we don't. Having money triggers, us to buy our wants instead of reinvesting on business. Alas in stock rewards, it'd be easier to recirculate a business.