Links Update Week of April 1

New Gourmet Beef Producer – Manage Smarter
Beef as an incentive award?  Does anyone ever order this stuff?

Ask more of, and raise rewards for, employee idea-generators – Marketing  & Strategies Innovation
The big idea – make sure the ideas have a business case and pay more for them.  Really, the point is, if it is really important, put some energy behind it and do it right. 

Corporate Aromatherapy to Boost Productivity – Manage Smarter
Smells like corporate spirit?  What if you’re having a crappy year?

"I’ve Been at My Job a Real Long Time: Six Months" – Fast Company
Embarrassed by longevity?  Need to teach kids respect their elders.

$500 not to have an abortion? – Freakonomics
No discussion on the morality – just the incentive.  You decide.  I’m sure there are unintended consequences here but I’m not sure what they might be.

How to Hire an Ace Consultant – Manage Smarter
Good idea with bad implementation.  The article makes fun of "steps to the sale" program structure but really the problem wasn’t the the rules but the way it was implemented.  Training would have helped.

More on Management What Employees Want – Compensation Force
I’ve heard the arguement that employees shouldn’t be treated like children or they will act like them but when you replace "manager" and "employee" in this post it looks pretty similar.