Join IMA and corporate thought leaders at the Forum’s Third Annual Tank that will focus on people centric leadership as the ultimate driver of an organization’s financial success.

This white paper, produced by the Incentive Performance Center (IPC), explores why incentive programs tend to thrive during times of economic stress, despite the initial hit when bad times set in.  It helps explain why savvy companies turn to incentive programs to drive business growth even while cutting budgets for other business development functions.

A study conducted by the Incentive Federation, Inc. that totals the incentive marketplace at $46.1 billion.  The full report outlines the uses and applications of incentives, what types of companies are currently using incentives and what the future usage may be.

IMA’s Industry Primer – The concept of incentive motivation recognizes that the characteristics of the goals we work to obtain influence our behavior. From the perspective of incentive motivation, experts conclude that incentives are the major force underlying what we do. We work to obtain the goals that are emotionally meaningful to us.

Ability x Motivation = Performance