Unlocking Potential: The Power of Incentive-Based Strategies

Explore strategies to leverage job design, production technology, firm strategy, and incentives to create accountability and motivation in your teams and organizations. Develop the skills and mindset needed to achieve exceptional results by fostering a culture of responsibility and ownership, establishing goals, and mentoring employees, all guided by insights into human behavior and complexity.

Course Snapshot

• Explore how incentive and control systems shape culture
• Examine the relationship between accountability, performance, and organizational goals
• Analyze how job structure, production methods, and incentives affect culture and motivation
• Apply behavioral and strategic insights to drive sustained employee engagement and results

Key Benefits

• Gain a framework to anticipate employee behavior in response to accountability and incentive systems
• Strengthen your ability to assess the broader organizational impact of policy changes
• Understand how psychological and economic factors influence employee motivation
• Learn how to align culture with job design, production technology, strategy, and incentives

Instructor

Seth Carnahan

Associate Professor of Strategy

WashU Olin Business School

Location & Modality

In-Person, Charles F. Knight Center on WashU's Danforth Campus

Earn Your Certificate

2 elective units

For Federal Employees

ECQ 3 – Results Driven

Note

Formerly called Accountability & Incentives (DC)

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