Rewards and Appraisal One of the most powerful influences on individual performance is an organization’s reward system. Management can use rewards to increase current employees’ performance. It can also use rewards to attract skilled employees to the organization. Performance appraisals, paychecks, raises, and bonuses are important aspects of the reward system, but they aren’t the only aspects. Ted makes this point clear in the preceding account when he states, “I know what it takes to motivate them.” Performance of the work itself can provide employees with rewards, particularly if job performance leads to a sense of personal responsibility, autonomy, and meaningfulness. These intrinsic rewards are also supplemented with extrinsic rewards, or what an organization, a manager, or a group can provide a person in terms of monetary and nonmonetary factors.