Prior to beginning work on this assignment,

• Review the following:
  • Chapter 12 from the course textbook. 

Determining incentives for professional employees is no small feat. Professional employees are those whose work involves the application of learned knowledge to the solution of the employer’s problems, such as nurses, lawyers, and engineers. Making incentive pay decisions for professional employees is challenging.

Considering the challenges of providing incentive pay for professional employees, assume you are the Director of HR. You will create an Incentive Plan for registered nurses.

The Nurses Incentive Plan assignment should address the following:

• Create an incentive plan for registered nurses using 2 of the 4 motivation theories discussed in Chapter 12.
• Distinguish three reasons why the incentive plan will work to help recruit and retain nurses.
• Analyze three reasons why incentive plans fail.

The Nurses Incentive Plan paper:

• must be three to five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages and formatted according to APA StyleLinks to an external site. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft WordLinks to an external site. resource.
• must include a separate title page with the following in title case:
  • title of paper in bold font
    • Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
  • student’s name
  • name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
  • course name and number
  • instructor’s name
  • due date
• must utilize academic voice. Review the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
• must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.
  • Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
  • For assistance on writing Introductions & ConclusionsLinks to an external site. and Writing a Thesis StatementLinks to an external site., refer to the Writing Center resources.
• must use at least three scholarly or peer-reviewed sources published in the past 5 years in addition to the course text