• Learn how to design— or improve— your incentive compensation plan to achieve your firm’s strategic goals while motivating and rewarding key employees
• Benchmark your A/E firm’s incentive compensation and bonus programs against your peers and competitors
• Get details on performance bonuses, referral compensation, signing bonuses, sales commissions, and more
• Find out how to overcome the common challenges in developing a bonus program that is fair for everyone
• Read case studies of how firms just like yours have successfully designed and implemented incentive compensation programs

Incentive compensation and bonus programs can be powerful tools for A/E firms to motivate and reward staff, attract new employees, and improve firm performance. However, if not designed and implemented properly, an incentive compensation program can actually have a negative effect on morale, productivity, and retention.

With ZweigWhite’s A/E Incentive Compensation Cookbook, you can make sure your firm’s incentive compensation and bonus programs get the results you are looking for. Filled with best practices, case studies, and benchmarking data, this report will help you design an incentive compensation plan that will achieve your firm’s strategic goals while motivating and rewarding key employees.

This report covers all forms of incentive compensation— performance bonuses, referral bonuses, profit sharing, sales commissions, and more. You’ll find out about the benefits of incentive compensation and how to overcome the challenges in developing a bonus program that is fair for everyone. A/E Incentive Compensation Cookbook also details the elements that you will need to consider when designing your firm’s bonus program and provides you with best practices for successful implementation.

Have you ever wanted to see how other firms reward their employees or what other firms’ incentive compensation programs look like? A/E Incentive Compensation Cookbook is filled with real-life case studies and plan descriptions, so you can get an inside look at how other A/E firms are putting bonus programs to work. The case studies profile firms of all types and sizes in the design and environmental industry so you can see how firms just like yours are using incentive compensation programs to their advantage. Get helpful advice from the people who’ve spearheaded incentive compensation projects. Find out how they have determined eligibility and performance measures and how they have addressed the challenges in administering the program. They’ll also tell you what pitfalls to avoid with your own program. Why repeat problems that others have solved?

A/E Incentive Compensation Cookbook also includes data so that you can benchmark your firm against the rest of the industry. Find out how much other firms spend on bonuses, so you can see how your firm compares.

Incentive compensation can be confusing. There are so many different options and ways to structure incentive compensation. Where do you start? What’s right for your firm? What are other firms doing? A/E Incentive Compensation Cookbook will help you answer these questions and more.

This book is perfect for design and environmental firm leaders, financial managers, operations managers, and human resources directors (particularly those with little experience in the A/E industry) looking to design an incentive compensation system, but don’t know where to start. And if you already have an incentive compensation program, compare yours to others in the industry to see if you can make any enhancements. Don’t struggle with your incentive compensation program any longer. Purchase the A/E Incentive Compensation Cookbook today.

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