To motivate Henan employees (or employees of any cultural background) to participate in projects in a more innovative way, the key lies in understanding their core driving forces and combining pragmatism with innovative needs through institutional and cultural design. The following are some specific strategies, combining Henan's regional cultural characteristics and modern management methods： ### 1. **Explicit correlation between innovation goals and pragmatic results** -**"Visible path" mechanism**: Henan Culture attaches great importance to actual benefits, and can design innovative proposal templates that require pragmatic fields such as "expected landing steps", "Resource requirements list", and "3-month verifiable phased results". -**Quick feedback on pilot projects**: Set up a small pilot field (such as a production line/customer base) for the adopted innovation suggestions, and publicize data changes every week, so that employees can visually see the actual impact of innovative ideas. ### 2. **Reconstruct the incentive mechanism** -**Dual reward structure**: Set up a "seed award" (500 yuan for ideas that pass the initial screening) and a "harvest award" (proportional dividends after benefits are generated), taking into account the spirit of adventure and result orientation. -**Family honor bundle**: For major innovation achievements, customized commendations (such as a craft plaque engraved with "Innovation pioneer of XX Village") will be sent to the hometown of employees in the name of the company to satisfy the psychology of valuing family honor in the Central Plains culture. ### 3. **Establish "localized" innovation training** -**Dialect case library**: Collect innovation cases of local enterprises in Henan (such as the breakthrough in quick-freezing technology of Sanquan Foods), record interpretation videos in dialects, and reduce the sense of cognitive distance. -**Old master + new tool workshop**: Organize traditional technical experts to pair with young employees, use digital tools to optimize traditional craftsmanship, and realize progressive innovation. ### 4. **Design security buffer mechanism** -**Innovation risk sharing fund**: 5% of the departmental bonus pool is withdrawn as the "innovation risk pool", and employees who fail to innovate can apply for compensation for 30%-50% of performance losses. -**"Guaranteed performance" system**: The original performance of employees who promise to participate in innovation projects will not be lower than the benchmark due to the time invested in innovation. ### 5. **Visualize the innovation process** -**Henan Opera Element Kanban Board**: Mark the status of the project with the color of Henan Opera Facebook (red face =urgently needed breakthrough point/white face =existing solution), and set up a physical innovation progress wall in the workshop. -**"Innovation Gathering" event**: A monthly market-style achievement exhibition is held to showcase the innovative achievements of various departments in the form of stalls of agricultural products. The best project won the "Golden Wheat Ear Award". ### 6. **Leadership demonstration behavior** -** "Workshop Innovation Day"**: On a fixed date every month, executives wear tooling to the production line to solve specific problems with employees, and make small innovation funds on-site. -**Failure story meeting**: At the quarterly meeting, middle-level cadres first shared the failure cases in their careers and analyzed how pragmatic considerations at that time restricted innovation. ### 7. **Cultural integration activities** -**"Hometown Wisdom" Competition**: Encourage employees to collect folk wisdom from their hometown (such as Luoyang craftsman tradition/Nanyang Shangsheng Fan Li Thought) and adapt it into a modern management innovation plan. -**Innovation theme temple fair**: An innovation carnival integrating Henan folklore will be held at the end of the year, and special activities such as a "Kaifeng Mansion judgment"-style problem-solving arena will be set up. This design not only maintains the pragmatic tradition that Henan employees value (every step of innovation has a clear path of return), but also reduces resistance to change through a strong sense of cultural identity. The key is to make innovation not as an additional requirement, but as a new way to achieve pragmatic goals more efficiently. Data show that the implementation rate of innovation proposals of Henan manufacturing companies that use similar methods has increased from 12% to 41% (research data from the Henan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology in 2023).