Sentence examples for individual incentives from inspiring English sources

But social engineering is just another term for collective action to change individual incentives.

It is the problem of the commons -- individual incentives appear to be at variance with the collective good.

As Darwin saw, many important aspects of life are graded on the curve, and in such cases, individual incentives often lead to mutually offsetting efforts.

A study of an American glass-installation company, for example, found that shifting from salaries to individual incentives increased productivity by 44%.

Ms Ledeneva thinks the sistema she describes is incapable of reform without a "fundamental change in morals, social norms and individual incentives".

Both Yugoslavia (in the 1960s) and China (in the 1980s) decentralized control over major sectors of their economies and introduced individual incentives on a significant scale.

Our findings give us confidence that changing the composition of the workforce by attracting better people, promoting better people, and/or better tailoring their individual incentives can improve health service delivery.

"The individual incentives are growing quite fast," said George Deeb, founder and chief executive of iExplore, an online agency based in Chicago that specializes in adventure travel for corporate incentive programs.

In 2009, the political economist Elinor Ostrom won a Nobel Prize for studying how nomads in Africa, farmers in Nepal and others learned to forgo individual incentives for a quick buck in favor of longer-term shared profits.

Yes, the individual incentives of some Republican legislators — especially those who represent safe-as-houses districts and fear primary challengers more than Democrats — cut against making any kind of deal with President Obama on taxes.

Finally, scientific management emphasized individual incentive wages.