Honor incentive has an important value to the organization development. This study adopts the method of literature analysis, interviews, questionnaires and other methods to analyze in-depth the dilemma in the implementation of public sector employees' honor incentive, including the employees' cognitive bias of honor, lack of motivation in the pursuit of honor, not scientific incentive method, poor incentive environment. Based on the four dilemmas, the study puts forward five conditions to make honor incentive efficient. The study proposes six suggestions, including quantity controlling, standardizing honor incentive program and method, establishing a scientific performance appraisal system, taking a more personalized and humanized incentive mode, creating a positive organizational culture and establishing a platform for members to participate.