Cash awards

For his discovery of acetylcholine, Loewi was awarded a share of the 1936 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. As one condition of being allowed to leave Austria in 1938, he was required to hand over the cash award that was given him as part of his Nobel Prize. 

Granting agencies Personal Cash awarded Few, competitive, restricted regarding use... 

These initiatives proved insufficient to bring about the desired amount of formal interaction between government and industrial scientists. The Federal Technology Transfer (FIT) Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-502) followed with financial and professional incentives to Federal scientists to actively pursue the commercialization of their inventions. The act also requires Federal agencies to share at least 15 percent of royalties from any licensed invention with the inventing scientists, and it directs agencies to establish cash awards with other personnel involved in productive Federal technology transfer activities. 

Cash Award Visualizing Infinity Other Batrachions I The Crying of Fractal Batrachions... 

About one-third of the inventor award plans provide modest cash amounts, while two-thirds involve some other form of recognition, instead of, or in addition to, cash awards (Figure 11). Standard awards, whether monetary or in some other form, are of predetermined value. 

The "Du Pont Challenge National Science Essay Contest", co-sponsored with General Learning Corporation in cooperation with NSTA. More than 10,000 junior and senior high school students participated in this contest in 1990. The winners in each division received 1500 and attended the NSTA convention in Atlanta along with a parent and a teacher. Cash awards and recognition were given also to the 52 runners-up. 

The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award program was instituted by President Clinton in 1995 and is administered by the EPA. Each year, cash awards are given to those projects deemed outstanding from among those that have applied. A complete list of past award winners and descriptions of their contributions may be found at http //www.epa.gov/greenchem-istry/past.html. 

In most cases a cash incentive is offered to the referring employee per successful hire. The amount of the cash award can vary greatly — ranging an3nvhere from a few hundred dollars to as high as 1000, and even higher at some carriers. 

Cash awards and paid time off are both such significant awards and may be considered forms of compensation. You must use them carefully to ensure that they support your safety process and do not encourage false reporting. 

Cash awards should be avoided, especially when large amounts of cash are being used for awards. Don t misunderstand me, cash has its place. For certain members of the team, it may be the only acceptable incentive. But for safety awards programs, cash is not the best incentive. So, the lucrative incentive plans described in the beginning of this chapter need to be adjusted. We need to remove the lucrative cash awards and replace them with more reasonable awards such as articles of clothing. 

However, from workers and foremen s point of view, a cash award is the best motivation for ensuring safety. They agree that some workers do unsafe work on site. In light of this, both workers and foremen suggest that penalties are also a good measure for increasing safety awareness. 

Oersted was named a fellow of several learned societies, presented with medals, and awarded cash prizes. At home, Oersted became Denmark s leading citizen. He continued his research, but as an international figure he traveled extensively, became fluent in many languages, and met with the leading scientists of the time. He gave frequent public lectures and became a director of the Royal Polytechnic Institute of Copenhagen. He also had a lifelong interest in literature and, in 1829, he founded a literary journal to which he frequently contributed articles about sci-... 

National Insurance Credits NI Credits are awarded to people who are out of work and claiming benefits in order to maintain their eligibility for a state pension. A significant minority of people who receive no cash benefit are awarded NI Credits through the JSA and IB systems. 

Since the enactment of PRWORA, there has been a shift from ongoing cash benefits to supportive services. While in 1995 states spent the great majority of AFDC funds for cash assistance, by 2003 states disbursed only 45% of TANF funds for cash benefits. Also a significant number of states award lump sum diversion payments to eligible families to overcome short-term financial crises thereby averting welfare dependency. 

In most cases a variety of rewards are used, such as verbal praise, public recognition, congratulatory letters from management, safety decorations, safety banquets, cash, and merchandise. Awards are most frequently based on established criteria or driver accomplishments, such as a lack of crashes, violations, or traffic convictions during a specified time period. 

Have a variety of awards including, and not just limited to, cash incentives — this will help create a larger degree of interest and add an element of ftm to the program and... 

In some states, the defendant and the plaintiff may simply share the above award. In a comparative negligence award the amount is apportioned based on the percentage of fault. Therefore, in a comparative negligence defense, if the defendant is found to be 40 percent at fault and the plaintiff 60 percent at fault, and the award is for 100,000, the actual cash paid by the defendant is 60,000. If the plaintiff s share of fault is found to be greater than 50 percent, then the plaintiff can receive no award. 

When setting up a cash incentive for safety, the two rules of thumb from the beginning of the chapter still apply The award should be relatively small, and it should be based primarily on maintaining the observation system and its components. 

I have been helping companies implement safety incentive programs for many decades, and one decision that is constantly underappreciated is the selection of specific rewards to use as incentives for safe behavior. Companies can choose from a wide variety of rewards cash, gift cards, awards/plaques/ certificates, special parking spaces, t-shirts and on and on. In case 1 get stuck, I actually have a book called 1001 Ways to Reward Employees to help me brainstorm for ideas. But the decision is not one to be taken lightly. There are important ramifications of this choice that many companies do not realize. 

---