"It would be one in which incentives were unimportant. And this, in turn, would be a world where people had no effect upon outcomes. It's be one where workers filled space, like those poor sods with placards advertising golf sales, or merely obeyed bosses' instructions*. In such a world, bonuses and incentives would be unacceptable, as they'd introduce useless random noise into pay.Are there any other employees of Glasgow City Council out there? Uncanny, isn't it?
This would be a world in which workers had no agency at all, but were merely passive objects to be manipulated."
Monday, February 26, 2007
De-motivation
Chris Dillow describes a world in which the payment of bonuses would be unacceptable:
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In such a world, bonuses and incentives would be unacceptable, as they'd introduce useless random noise into pay.
This assumes that bonuses would be paid randomly rather than actively rewarding failure. Which would be a better world than the one we actually inhabit.
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