'perceived incentive' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe an incentive that is believed to exist, but may or may not actually be present. For example, "The perceived incentive of financial rewards caused the students to stay up late working on their projects."
Mr. Thiry added that he would welcome a well-designed change in the reimbursement system to eliminate perceived incentives to overuse Epogen, which is commonly referred to as Epo.
Paying people outrageous benefits has perceived incentives on the Wall Street executives to do what's in regular people's best interest.
Employers wanted broad networks that allowed patients a broad choice among physicians, without perceived incentives to withhold or ration care.
Therefore, it is important that managers understand their employees' needs, how the discrepancy between those needs and perceived incentives relates to job satisfaction, and how to motivate employees and increase their job satisfaction.
Previous researches have suggested that both desired workplace incentives and perceived actual incentives affect job satisfaction, either directly or indirectly [ 23, 29].
As a consequence, students perceived an incentive to obtain university degrees, even when there was a chance that they would remain unemployed for an extended period of time.
But, in our experience, there are usually some aspects of family or cultural respect for the career, glamorization of doctors in entertainment, a true desire to help others and perceived financial incentives that contribute to the decision to pursue medicine as a career.
These 44 items were chosen based on previous studies and a panel discussion that examined desired and perceived workplace incentives for health workers [ 10, 17, 18].
When prompted, two patients said that they perceived financial incentives as a voluntary and non-coercive measure, two patients did not know what to think about this, and one indicated that he perceived financial incentives as a coercive measure, saying that "I have to take the medication anyway".
They perceived that incentive-linked specific activities skew the programme through narrowing ASHAs' activities to those that are incentivised such as institutional delivery and immunisation and leading to the neglect of other (non-incentivised) activities such as home visits, post-partum care and community mobilisation.
