Word: tailoring
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Many companies try nonfinancial incentives, but clumsily. Team-building junkets (even to St. Croix) don't work, nor do positive-attitude lapel buttons. Successful motivation requires careful thinking about how to encourage accomplishments that make a difference to the bottom line and how to tailor incentives to individual employees. After a manager in the Tampa, Fla., office of Aetna, for example, started pizza parties tied to quality measures for rank-and-file workers, backlogs fell sharply. (Katzenbach does note that pay is the best motivator for upper-level executives, whose potential earnings from bonuses and stock options are enormous...
...arts are as valid and important to the University’s mission as any other academic subject. The practice and performance of the arts provide creative outlets for reflecting, critiquing and interpreting the world. Just as existing concentrations tailor their curricula to the subjects’ history, trends and real-world applications, arts concentrations focus on history, theory and performance. The University should not, nor would it ever, create an arts conservatory within Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but academic endeavors which aim to create art—not just interpret it—deserve far more support...
Novartis wants to make its facilities in Cambridge the model for a new kind of drug research—they want to work closely with professors from Harvard and MIT and use cutting-edge research on the human genome to tailor their cures to specific diseases...
...sciences and further expand Harvard’s renown in fields outside the humanities. Pinker’s arrival here will be a decisive step in that process. His controversial study of the extent to which evolutionary forces and the genes shaped by them control individual human nature seems tailor-made for Harvard’s Mind, Brain and Behavior program...
Tracking Expos would be beneficial for all parties involved; it would be better for students at all writing levels, and would allow the preceptors to tailor their lessons more specifically to the students in their section, who would all possess similar writing abilities...