"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."
"It has been the misfortune of this age, that everything is to be discussed, as if the constitution of our country were to be always a subject rather of altercation than enjoyment." - Edmund Burke anticipates the Neverendum
Monday, February 26, 2007
De-motivation
Chris Dillow describes a world in which the payment of bonuses would be unacceptable:
In such a world, bonuses and incentives would be unacceptable, as they'd introduce useless random noise into pay.
ReplyDeleteThis assumes that bonuses would be paid randomly rather than actively rewarding failure. Which would be a better world than the one we actually inhabit.