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Originally Posted by rmvvwls 
I agree. If I was running a company with staff not pulling their weight, the solution would be very simple.
Pick up your stuff, and get out.
You shouldn't need to motivate staff. If they're there, they should be working.
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Did any of you guys even read the article?
It's not really about assigning points...that's just an example.
The guy is saying that an increased effort/reward correlation tends to lead to better work and productivity.
In business terms it makes sense, if your company makes very clear what you expect of employees, and rewards them for it (through increased pay) you will have much better productivity.
It's not about motivating lazy people, it's about consistently rewarding good work and the benefits that entails.
It's basically fixed ratio positive operand conditioning designed to increase productivity, and the most consistent the reinforcement, the more effective the conditioning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement
From Wikipedia:
"Ratio schedules produce higher rates of responding than interval schedules, when the rates of reinforcement are otherwise similar."
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"I often talk about the analogy of ten pin bowling," said Express Data CEO Ross Cochrane about managing performance.
"If you had a game of ten pin bowling and you put the pins behind a curtain and told people to bowl so they could hear something happening but didn't really know how many pins they'd knocked down or which ones were still standing, then it doesn't become much of a game and secondly they tend not to get the best outcomes."
"I think you need to make it very clear to people about what the expectations are with regards to performance," he said. |
