Maturity of non-wage motivation systems according to Poland’s machinery sector companies – from management theory to practice

Due to major fluctuations in the labour market, the issue of motivation is again becoming one of the fundamental subjects of modern management and quality sciences. It seems that the complexity of the problems – apart from limited scientific recognition so far – justify treatment of the mentioned matters as the subject matter of research. Thus, the main goal of this paper is to assess the level of maturity of manufacturing enterprises in the area of effective implementation of non-wage systems to motivate executive employees. With reference to the objective outlined in this way, it was recommended as a necessary action; on the theoretical level – to apply the method of reconstruction and interpretation of Polish and foreign literature related to this subject – to nominate questions assessing the level of maturity of non-wage incentive systems; on a project level – to compile a research tool in the form of an evaluation sheet constituting the resultant literature exploration and research among intentionally selected respondents (executive employees); on an empirical level – to conduct investigation among manufacturers of the agricultural machinery sector (expert assessment).