Compensation has been most important incentive for employee productivity in the system of human resource management. It is also the most important mechanism that organizations use to attract and retain competent employees. Although benefits are typically not related to employee productivity, an attractive benefit package can assist in the retention of a qualified workforce. Promotion is another frequency used mechanism to motivate employee. Promotion represents not only the increase of rank and salary; it also represents the recognition of employee's competency. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to survey the incentive systems of Taiwan newspapers, and to investigate the relationship between the incentive systems with employees' job performance. The research is focused on the staff of editing department of the newspapers in Taiwan, and the sampling data were collected through surveyed questionnaires. Therefore, authority should try to know the employees' personality trait and design the incentive systems that suits staff's needs in order to improve job aspiration and job performance.