The High Court held that incentives earned by an advertising agency from media firms do not attract service tax when no separate service is rendered to them. The ruling clarifies that incidental ...

The promise of performance incentives starts early. Preschoolers get stickers for good behavior. Later, parents might buy their teenagers pizza for scoring well on tests. And in the business world, ...

Performance incentive models of compensation, which consistently rose in popularity among marketers since they were first benchmarked in 1991, have been waning for nearly a decade, according to the ...

Call center work is difficult, with constant interaction among customers, supervisors and co-workers. Tensions can run high and the stress of attempting to solve problems throughout the day can weigh ...

Incentive programs are a fundamental element of sales management and can serve many useful purposes. Incentive campaigns can provide general motivation of the sales force, or they can be employed to ...

Faced with similar fiscal pressures, state and local governments can achieve better results at less cost by restructuring their relationships based on evidence of what works instead of simply cutting ...

SoftBank reported earnings today, including the performance of its $98.6 billion Vision Fund. The numbers were enticing, given the recent exit of DoorDash, which returned billions to SoftBank and ...

Small-business owners sometimes get a yuk from telling the story of the wealthy business owner whose idea of incentivizing his employees was to offer free parking spaces to all but two employees, with ...

Learn how accounting-based incentives reward executives, explore their benefits and potential risks, and how they align executive and shareholder interests.