II. Motivating Employees

• Increase employee buy-in – allowing the employees to choose and plan the types of training offered
• Skill - based pay – an employee participates in a training program that is designed to increase a particular skill an employee needs either to be promoted or receive a pay raise
• Vertical Skill Plans – pay for skill in a single job
• Horizontal skill plans – focus on skills used across multiple jobs
• Depth skill plans – rewards employees for learning specialized skills
• Basic Skills Plans – focus on such basic skills as math and English
• Positive feedback should be given when an employee performs correctly during training
• Negative feedback should be accompanied by suggestion on how one would improve