The production of quality goods and services depends on the skills and expertise of employees of that organisation. Employees are the backbone of any organisation. They are an asset and need to be valued especially if the organisation intends to survive and have a competitive edge. To acquire and retain skilled human resources is not easy and needs concerted effort on the part of all human resource stakeholders in organisations. Organisations need to make themselves attractive to prospective employees, as well as to those employees they already have to avoid having them resign. To make matters worse, competition for skilled, talented employees is tough, especially in a country like South Africa, which has a shortage of qualified and experienced human resources. Therefore, more and more organisations are becoming innovative in managing their available talent. The use of attractive reward and incentive schemes are amongst some of the s