The phrase "a positive incentive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing motivations or rewards that encourage certain behaviors or actions.
Example: "Offering a positive incentive, such as a bonus, can significantly boost employee morale and productivity."
Alternatives: "a beneficial motivation" or "a constructive reward."
"It is a positive incentive and something manufacturers support.
We should use as a positive incentive the benefits that will accrue to Afghanistan from the construction of oil and gas pipelines across its territory.
On the one hand, a policy that tries to promote the most appropriate action regarding the global utility of the system, by assigning a positive incentive to it.
Crocodile eggs are taken from the wild and raised; in this way ranching provides both income and a positive incentive for those living in proximity to the crocodiles to maintain healthy wild populations.
The proposal, first floated by James P. Molinaro, the Staten Island borough president, at a public hearing last month, has picked up momentum among board members who view it as a positive incentive for drivers to use E-ZPasses, radio-based fare payment devices.
That has been a positive incentive for many customers, and stores benefitted from the buying surge.
In other words, the program offered only the threat of a negative consequence, without any positive incentive -- aside from the opportunity to exercise better self-control in the grocery aisles, and be healthier as a result.
She observed that the Vietnamese population was not committed to the war against the North and realized that with existing tenurial conditions the rural population had a large positive incentive to keep a low level of military activity.
The existing evidence in research about monetary incentives as a positive motivator is mixed and inconclusive.
As a more positive incentive, the device can also instruct patients to decrease their medications if they are doing well.
Our anthropological sense of solidarity and its Mitbewegung provides a more positive incentive for sociability than Hume's sympathy and Schopenhauer's compassion.
