Making incentive design more flexible. Possibilities and limits of the cafeteria system

Studienarbeit vom Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich BWL - Personal und Organisation, Note: 1,7, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (FB BWL), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Today, certain forms of compensation are used to design certain incentives in such a way that they have a performance-motivating effect on employees. In addition to the traditional pure cash compensation, fringe and additional benefits as well as company pension benefits play a decisive role. All these components are summarized below under the term total compensation. A new way of structuring total compensation is the cafeteria system, which is presented in this paper. The aim of this paper is to show the possibilities and limitations associated with the implementation of the cafeteria approach in a company. In doing so, the individual problems u.