Systematizing the Foreign Experience on Motivation and Stimulation of Labor Activity

Abstract

The article is aimed at studying and systematizing the experience on motivation and stimulation of staff in the developed foreign countries, the schemes of usage of additional wages. The current schemes of motivation of labor in the countries of the European Union are allocated. The additional pay components and the pay components related to labor productivity are analyzed. The percentage of European workers receiving remuneration for work is determined, as well as the changes that occurred during the period of 2000-2015 are specified. The characteristic features of the system of motivation and stimulation of staff in Sweden and Finland are allocated and described. The methods of remuneration, practical experience on motivation of staff in the foreign countries are generalized. The carried out comparative analysis of the main types of motivation will be useful in the formation of motivation system at domestic enterprises, will help to keep valuable personnel at the current level of wages, motivating the company’s personnel to more productive work.

Keywords

• motivation
• stimulation
• remuneration
• staff management