Sentences with phrase «good incentive to work»

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Following successful models like the X-Prize, private - and public - sector leaders should work together to set up a high - profile Canada Prize that offers incentives for entrepreneurs and researchers to solve critical problems with commercial and public benefits, like cheap desalination units or better distribution of electricity to villages.

«And then when you identify what seems to be working well and why, you have to identify ways of spreading that around and basically [provide] incentives for other people to adopt those promising practices.»

The R&D incentive available to all companies in Australia works particularly well in early phase research where almost every activity directly ties to R&D and IP generation.

«It is a good start for Germany to have a stable government... after so many months, there is now a big incentive to get down to work with energy,» Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said.

Bates says there's a solid incentive for addressing work - life issues, and it's directly related to the reason she and two partners started their firm 15 years ago: «It's a highly competitive market and we want to attract the best people in the business.

There's no incentive for creative people to do their best work, to give their all.

This is a personal risk for employees, but it also offers them an incentive to work harder and see the company do well on the assumption that if the business does well they will see a payoff, too.

A price on carbon works because it creates a powerful incentive to cut pollution, encouraging people and businesses to save money by making cleaner choices like better insulating their homes or upgrading to more efficient equipment.»

The best way to start to change is to restructure financial incentives to reward that behavior and create bonuses based on group targets, encourage people to share information and work together to help the entire company succeed.

If (and that might be a big «if») both strategies have the potential to work out equally well for the company, that means the choice is open, and the potential is there to base pricing on whichever strategy will do the most for employees in terms of providing customers an incentive for large tips.

Chung recommends that leaders experiment strategically to determine what works best for their team, employing a balance between year - end incentives and quarterly, and even monthly and weekly, quotas and goals.

Well, economists like to make the case for more emphasis on consumption taxation relative to income taxes, which can have incentive effects on work effort, savings and risk taking.

He repeats his description of the ways bad charity (the Great Society) drove out good charity (religiously based groups): It reinterpreted the causes of poverty as exclusively material and environmental; its bureaucracy tried to reach ever - larger numbers of poor people with a decreasingly personal strategy for fighting poverty; it dismissed the role of volunteers in favor of professional social workers; and it removed the incentives for work, saving, and marriage.

Repentance is at best only an incentive to this turning, and it may even stand in the way of it if a man tortures himself with the idea that his acts of penance are not sufficient and thereby withholds his best energies from the work of reversal.

They consider what approaches to welfare best preserve incentives to work and save, or what type of banking system does the best job of getting money from the people who save to those who can put it to productive use.

This toolkit, to be released in 2016, will bring together lessons from our research and policy work in date labeling, tax incentives, liability protections, as well as other food waste policies, to provide policy makers with a comprehensive menu of policy options.

TOUGH: Well, I think part of it has to do with education policy, that we've been so focused on standardized tests as the measure of whether a school is doing well that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skiWell, I think part of it has to do with education policy, that we've been so focused on standardized tests as the measure of whether a school is doing well that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skiwell that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skills.

Workplace policies that support mothers who pump milk for their babies — incentives for employers, facilities for pumping, as well as permission for the mother to take time off from work to pump

While it's true that incentives can help motivate children in certain circumstances, they tend to work best when a child needs an extra little push to do something she's almost ready to do on her own.

The incentive to leave what they are doing, get clean and move onto something that won't be as messy (messy = fun) needs to be good — food, play outside, a fun bath (check out these ideas from Bath Activities for Kids for inspiration) usually work for us and reduce the tantrums, things then can be put to dry and when they are dry we can come back to them and finish them off.

The May 1, 2011 - April 30, 2015 agreements with police dispatchers, telecommunications operators, and public works and building maintenance employees and upper police management: • * increase required employee contributions to participate in conventional preferred provider organization health plans, • * provide financial incentives to employees to switch to consumer - directed plans or managed - care plans, • * provide village funding of 40 percent of the deductible for high deductible health plans with health savings accounts and • * require employee participation in annual wellness and health risk assessment screenings in order to qualify for best rates.

While it's true that incentives can help motivate children in certain circumstances, they tend to work best when a child just needs an extra little push to do something he's almost ready to do on his own.

«Universal credit will also provide clear incentives for people to get back into work — by ensuring they know they are better off in work than on benefits and will directly lift 900,000 people out of poverty.»

«Taking more people out of income tax altogether will ease the burden on low earning families and, with action to stop a rise in benefits outstripping increases in earnings as well, it will improve the incentive to work.

«Although well intentioned, the last Government received very little for their money in terms of social mobility and a reduction in the gap between the rich and the poor, and they have further fuelled a culture of benefit dependency in which children grow up seeing parents and grandparents who have never worked as their role models, in which people are better off living apart than living together, and in which there is no incentive to work because of the fear of becoming worse off.

MPs found the sanctions against offenders who fail to pay confiscation orders «do not work» - and complained that there are not appropriate incentives in place to encourage the Home Office and other government departments responsible to do better in collecting the money.

«Yvette has made clear from the start that she does not believe the best way to reduce the deficit is to hit working families, reduce work incentives and push more children into poverty.

Yvette has made clear from the start that she does not believe the best way to reduce the deficit is to hit working families, reduce work incentives and push more children in to poverty.

What is the best way to show that tax - cutting is the best way to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor, to help eliminate the poverty trap and create incentives to work?

as to how much «incentive» the potentially - better - off can require for doing the work that makes the poor better - off.

It's working in academies, it's working in Troubled Families, it's working in the civil service - so I can announce today that we will work with prison staff to examine a new financial incentive scheme to reward staff in the best - performing prisons.

Rather than a ban, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack reportedly said in a letter, the department prefers to promote» incentive - based solutions that are better suited for the working families, elderly and other low - income individuals» who get food stamps.

The system will work better if markets link up to trade internationally — greater competition for permits should add to the incentive to cut emissions.

If both bodies demanded that applications should be backed by no more than six papers, researchers would have an incentive to minimise their number of publications with better integrated, related work and better tested ideas in their more important papers.

That increased demand, Dukhovnov said, could be partially addressed through more flexible workplace policies and tax breaks or other incentives that would better allow people to provide informal caregiving and continue working.

«The people who get lots of grants are by and large brilliant people doing really good work,» says Ross McKinney, chief scientific officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, D.C. «We'd really like to see the details because we could change the incentives in ways that are not constructive if we are not careful.»

The researchers say the incentive to buy didn't work in the first case because consumers are generally suspicious when companies claim to be doing a good deed.

Working sessions during the conference will include articulating key concepts and competencies and how they are best assessed; student — centered learning including how students learn and appropriate pedagogy; the role of scientific research in the curriculum; implementing and evaluating educational innovations; expanding the toolkit of approaches to teaching for both current and future faculty; and changing institutional cultures to overcome barriers and create incentives for innovation.

My future success depends on your current success, which creates a tremendous incentive to create the best possible profiles for people who expect top quality work.

Its progression system works remarkably well and acts as an incentive for the players to keep pushing themselves, making this a very involving game that acts as a perfect starter while waiting for the next Dragon Quest.

Unique skills can be learned as well, usually when you've formed a strong bond between two characters — another incentive to get your units working closely on the battlefield.

The character leveling also means that you have an incentive to play with each character, and have some solid progress to work toward in the game toward not just getting high scores and unlocking new areas, but also making your characters even better.

Where it does excel is in finding new angles from which to consider the Holocaust without dwelling on it — the very idea of an assembly line inside a prison camp where the skilled labourers are sure they'll be killed as soon as their project is finished will have a terrifying resonance for anyone who works hard for their money (as will the acquisition of a ping - pong table as singularly absurd incentive for a job well done).

While publishing learners» work may have evolved over the years, the core objective is the same — to give learner's the incentive to do their very best, and to offer them the opportunity to be recognized for their hard work.

«The programs in which we provide incentives on inputs seem to work better than those where we provide incentives on output,» says Samms, cautiously.

Finn, who established her classroom store as an incentive for students to do their work well and to complete it on time, gives credit for the idea to a teaching assistant who helped with small groups of students in her room.

«They can be an incentive for students to do their best work, they support the reading and math goals outlined in our School Improvement Plan, and they add interest for parents and visitors.»

But there were other problems as well: NCLB did not itself provide sufficient incentives for students to work hard, as only teachers were held accountable for failure, and the legislation did not end the enduring inequalities of educational opportunity for low - income and minority students that underlie the achievement gap.

But choice unleashes new forces that work from the bottom up to redistribute power, to give schools and teachers strong incentives to perform, and to hold them accountable - through consequences that are automatically invoked (the loss of kids and resources)- if they don't do a good job.

The annual change of net pension wealth is the focus of our article, because that is what best conveys the pension system's embedded incentives to work or retire.