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Praised, Not Paid

A Recognition Settlement Engine for the Quarterly Bonus Pool

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement reports a twelve-month deployment of the Recognition Settlement Engine, which converts peer-submitted workplace kudos messages into a quarterly bonus-pool allocation and locks the ledger at each quarter's close with no manual override. Classifier-weighted points per employee rose sharply across the deployment while a held-out survey of colleague-rated genuine recognition held flat.

AuthorsRenke Sabel, Casimir Beng, Joost Nwosu
SchoolSchool of Continuous Improvement
Output typeResearch paper
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.aks44d
Pages5
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_aks44d,
  author       = {Renke Sabel and Casimir Beng and Joost Nwosu},
  title        = {Praised, Not Paid: A Recognition Settlement Engine for the Quarterly Bonus Pool},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.aks44d},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-points-clearing-engine-aks44d/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}