Methods of Encouraging Agents by Imam Ali (A.S)
One of the ways that managers behave with agents is to use the method of encouragement and punishment. Usually, encouragement is done for good work in order to thank the person. Encouragement is a derivative of the word enthusiasm, which means creating enthusiasm and is a kind of gratitude. The question of this research is what methods did Imam Ali (A.S) use to encourage agents? The method of collecting data in this research was library and the processing method is descriptive-analytical. After investigations, it was found that Imam Ali (A.S) used different methods to encourage agents. One of these methods is to give a financial gift to a person. The second method is verbal encouragement that encourages the person and causes others to do good work. Another method of Imam Ali (A.s) is written encouragement. He thanked different people for their good performance by sending letters and etc to them.