5.1.3: Incentives

Create incentives for employee and organizational collaboration

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As we pursue more open government at USDA, increasing employee awareness of the value of collaboration is vital. The Department is working to educate, encourage, and incentivize employee contributions to its collaboration efforts. USDA is exploring ways to collect and share a library of collaboration successes. Such a collection would serve to inform employees of typical collaboration efforts. It also would act as an incentive to employees to bring success to their own existing programs. In addition, USDA is dedicated to developing measurable performance standards for collaboration. This move would standardize the collaboration process and hopefully peak employee interest. To incentivize the collaboration process, USDA is looking at such ideas as proposing a “Collaboration Award” and creating meaningful, tangible, formalized rewards for individuals and groups that show results from collaboration.

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• Employees

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