The momentum began over a year ago with President Obama's call to measure and reward effective teaching, a challenge he repeated in last week's State of the Union address.
The Third Way report called for an expansion of accountability measures that would reward effective teachers through salary increases and career growth opportunities, while working to keep ineffective teachers out of the classroom.
The 2003 GP contract in the UK encourages longer consultations (albeit only 10 minutes) and rewards effective health promotion, thus lowering one important barrier.
Will we reward effective and efficient service by paying physicians for answering electronic mail that eliminates the need for an office visit?
The competitive efficiency-driven sector is a sphere where a "product or a service is produced and exchanged in a market such that organizations are rewarded for effective and efficient control of their production systems," seeking to produce in a more competitive way than their competitors with the objective to maximise their returns on investment.
Rewarding good behavior is more effective than punishing bad behavior.
According to Emrich, PaeDae is currently expanding to an area he calls "user-centric advertising," which brings the attributes that make mobile rewards effective to other kinds of mobile advertising.
President Obama identified the broken reward system for teachers as a key: "Let's create systems that retain and reward effective teachers," he said.
English teacher and freelance writer salaries notwithstanding, ours is a culture that values and rewards effective communication, and we all rely on a world full of documents as we make our way through everyday professional and personal life.
It may be possible to operate such controls within a department, rewarding an effective school, say, and punishing an ineffective one.
