The IRF Quarterly Academic Review Explores Top Research on Employee Engagement and Motivation

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The Incentive Research Foundation

Dec 19, 2018, 13:00 ET

WASHINGTON (PRWEB) December 19, 2018 -- The Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) is pleased to release the Winter 2018 issue of The IRF Quarterly Academic Review, the world’s first journal focused on the academic research into incentives, rewards, recognition, and motivation in the workplace.

With an emphasis employee engagement and motivation, the insights presented in this issue of The Quarterly are based on diverse academic research into the mind of the modern worker. Readers of The Quarterly can look forward to easy to digest summaries of the psychology of why non-cash rewards work, which types of rewards are best at engaging recipients, and how non-cash rewards can boost employee engagement and performance.

Ready-to-apply take-aways from the Winter issue include the following:

• Non-cash rewards are often experiential, creating positive memories and associations.
• Give reward earners a choice among a range of unique, luxury incentives that they can not easily find on their own.
• Present non-cash rewards as separately as possible from wages, salary, and even cash rewards.
• Design and communicate rewards to convey good intentions so that they will boost employees’ psychological needs.
• Poorly designed rewards have the potential to disengage previously motivated workers.

Melissa Van Dyke, IRF President and Allan Schweyer, IRF Chief Academic Advisor will discuss key findings and takeaways from all four 2018 issues of The IRF Quarterly Academic Review on Thursday, December 20 at 2:00 pm ET. To register for the IRF’s Academic Year-in-Review webinar, click here.

To view or download a copy of The IRF Quarterly Academic Review, please visit: http://theirf.org/education/the-irf-quarterly-academic-review/

About the IRF:
The Incentive Research Foundation (TheIRF.org) funds and promotes research to advance the science and enhance the awareness and appropriate application of motivation and incentives in business and industry globally. The goal is to increase the understanding, effective use, and resultant benefits of incentives to businesses that currently use incentives and others interested in improved performance.

Andy Schwarz, The Incentive Research Foundation, http://www.TheIRF.org, +1 703.651.8189, [email protected]