(alsoincentive pay)HRextramoneypaidto anemployeeas arewardfor goodworkor toencouragegoodworkin thefuture:Anaircraftmanufacturerproposeda company-wideincentivewagepaymentwhichprovidedfor anincreaseof 5% inwagesifproductionincreased10%.(Definition ofincentive wagefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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incentive wageDiscussions ofincentivewageplans and incentives under socialist systems are prevalent in the 1920s and continue throughout the interwar period.From theCambridge English CorpusIncentivewagesystems were particularly controversial.From theCambridge English CorpusBut there is no reason why a new type of scheme embodying theincentivewageprinciple should not be adopted.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Is that co-partnership, or is it a mereincentivewagescheme?From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0This idea arose when the early use of incentive wages did not have the anticipated effect on labor productivity because purchasing power had not improved.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A premise of that program was that workers would raise their productivity in response to incentive wages only if their money could buy a greater variety of consumer products.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/incentive-wage##
