Measuring and Motivating Performance
COURSE ID: LSM533
Course Overview

Incentive compensation is one of the most powerful tools managers have to motivate and direct their employees—but like any powerful tool, it can cause great damage if not wielded carefully! This online course will help you understand how to match forms of incentive compensation to your firm's circumstances, and identify and respond to incentive-strategy mismatches.

Who should enroll in this course?

People at all levels in any functional area in for-profit, not-for-profit and governmental organizations who want to be more effective in:

  • Specifying organizational strategy, or implementing the strategies specified by others.
  • Linking performance evaluation and incentives to organizational strategy.
  • Revising strategy and operations to accomplish strategic goals at lower cost.
  • Helping employees collaborate and work together across departments and functional areas, and communicate more effectively with colleagues about the goals and performance of their organization.

Accounting and finance people will also benefit enormously from this program. This series applies the work of accounting, measurement, and thinking strategically about costs and performance in every corner of an organization.

Measuring and Improving Business Performance