PERSONALIZED INCENTIVE PLANS THROUGH EMPLOYEE PROFILING

Silverio Petruzzellis, Oriana Licchelli, Ignazio Palmisano, Giovanni Semeraro, Valeria Bavaro, Cosimo Palmisano

2006

Abstract

Total reward management (TRM) is a holistic practice that interprets the growing need in organizations for involvement and motivation of the workers. It is oriented towards pushing the use of Information Technology in supporting the improvement of both organization and people performances, by understanding employee needs and by designing customized incentives and rewards. Customization is very common in the area of e-commerce, where application of profiling and recommendation techniques makes it possible to deliver personalized recommendations for users that explicitly accept the site to store personal information such as preferences or demographic data. Our work is focused on the application of User Profiling techniques in the Total Reward Management context. In the Team Advisor project we experimented the analogies Customer/Employee, Product, Portfolio/Reward Library and Shop/Employer, in order to provide personalized reward recommendations to line managers. We found that the adoption of a collaborative software platform delivering a preliminary reward plan to the managers fosters collaboration and actively supports the delegation of decision-making.

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Petruzzellis S., Licchelli O., Palmisano I., Semeraro G., Bavaro V. and Palmisano C. (2006). PERSONALIZED INCENTIVE PLANS THROUGH EMPLOYEE PROFILING . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-42-9, pages 107-114. DOI: 10.5220/0002493401070114


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@conference{iceis06,
author={Silverio Petruzzellis and Oriana Licchelli and Ignazio Palmisano and Giovanni Semeraro and Valeria Bavaro and Cosimo Palmisano},
title={PERSONALIZED INCENTIVE PLANS THROUGH EMPLOYEE PROFILING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={107-114},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002493401070114},
isbn={978-972-8865-42-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - PERSONALIZED INCENTIVE PLANS THROUGH EMPLOYEE PROFILING
SN - 978-972-8865-42-9
AU - Petruzzellis S.
AU - Licchelli O.
AU - Palmisano I.
AU - Semeraro G.
AU - Bavaro V.
AU - Palmisano C.
PY - 2006
SP - 107
EP - 114
DO - 10.5220/0002493401070114