Streetwise Motivating & Rewarding Employees

Year 1999
Pages 319

Worth buying if: You manage a frontline team and want Hiam’s concrete incentive examples.

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Summary

Alexander Hiam’s Streetwise Motivating & Rewarding Employees delivers practical, field-tested techniques and sample programs for supervisors who need real results in morale, incentives, and performance management.

Why this book now

Managers and small-business owners still need hands-on, low-cost motivation methods from Hiam’s 1999 playbook to tackle today’s retention and engagement gaps.

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Straightforward tactics from Alexander Hiam to motivate and reward employees without corporate jargon or HR red tape.

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Good fit if you want...

  • You manage a frontline team and want Hiam’s concrete incentive examples.
  • You prefer Adams Media’s pragmatic, how-to style over academic theory.

Maybe skip if...

  • You want a research-heavy textbook on organizational psychology.
  • You need up-to-the-minute digital remote-work reward systems.
  • You need the newest edition, freshest examples, or the most current framing.

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practical no-nonsense workshop-ready Medium length Older edition

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Skip it if: You want a research-heavy textbook on organizational psychology.

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Reading commitment

Balanced Moderate time

At 319 pages, expect several focused sessions: skim chapters for ready-made forms and return to sample programs when designing your own plans.

What stands out here

This Adams Media 1999 edition emphasizes applied checklists, sample reward schemes, and supervisor scripts rather than theory-heavy chapters.

Best way to approach it

Approach it as a field manual: jump to relevant sections, copy adaptable templates, and test one incentive at a time with your team.

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