IMPORTANCE OF CLASSIFICATION AND CLEAR DEFINITION OF REWARDS TYPES IN RESEARCH, PRACTICE AND TEACHING

Our review paper may be particularly interesting for researchers in the field of rewarding. We provide relatively comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to classification of rewards and we also offer a concise evaluation of these approaches. Furthermore, by means of content analysis of relevant literature, we highlight that there is no general agreement on definitions of basic concepts, which are used in the field of rewarding. Because of these differences in definitions of key concepts there is a high risk of serious misunderstandings and these problems grow when it is necessary to combine findings from multiple disciplines. There is little hope for fast unification of terminology in the discussed area and we believe that these problems may be at least partially solved by providing clear definitions of terms in the beginning of each discourse about rewarding.