Dear Navneet,
Please don't mis-quote me.
A) I never started that employee on notice should not get "incentives", I stated my observation that most companies do not pay incentives to employees who are on notice.
B) I stated that I would not give "promotion" to an employee on notice, I didn't state that I would not give "incentive" to a person on notice.
This discussion is about promotions, my comments were about promotions, however you are clubbing promotion, incentive and appraisals together which is not correct. Each is a separate activity and should be dealt with separately (inputs of one affects the other but still, for the purpose of this discussion, you cannot club them)
Let me clarify my stand:
About Incentives:
1. Should an organization pay incentives to an employee on notice? - My stand is YES, the employee deserves it.
2. Do most organisations actually pay incentives to employees on notice? - My experience is that they don't pay. My stand as an HR professional is that this is not fair, but this is a reality. Most organisations have such a clause in their incentive policy too.
About Promotions:
I have extensive experience in retention discussion and promotions.
Should an employee on notice get a promotion based on past performance? - Not unless he/she withdraws the resignation; reason being - Most companies have a specific quota for promotion hence I would prefer to utilize the quota for people who are going to continue working with the organisation. If I promote a person who would leave the Co. in 30-60 days, I would not only waste the quota but also miss the opportunity to promote another deserving candidate and aggrieve him/her.
Hope this clarifies my stand.
Please read my posts clearly, don't just browse through it and mis-quote me.
Regards,
Ritesh Shah