Prior to beginning
Review the following:
Chapter 12 from the course textbook, Dessler, G. Human Resource Management.
Determining incentives for professional employees is no small feat. As you have reviewed in Chapter 12, “Professional employees are those whose work involves the application of learned knowledge to the solution of the employer’s problems, such as nurses, lawyers and engineers. Making incentive pay decisions for professional employees is challenging. For one thing, firms usually pay professionals well. For another, professional employees are already driven by the desire to produce high-caliber work.
Considering the challenges of providing incentive pay for professional employees, assume you are the Director of HR.
You will create an Incentive Plan for Registered Nurses. Incentive plans must include incentives for agencies employed registered nurses and hospital employed registered nurses.
The Nurses Incentive Plan assignment should address the following:
Create an incentive plan for Registered nurses using 2 of the 4 motivation theories discussed in Chapter 12.
Incentive plans must include incentives for agency employed nurses and hospital employed workers.
Discuss three reasons why the incentive plan will work to help recruit and retain nurses.
Examine three reasons why incentive plans fail.
