{"id":27250,"date":"2019-04-06T11:18:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T15:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=27250"},"modified":"2019-04-06T13:01:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T17:01:05","slug":"rewards-arent-the-key-to-employee-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/04\/06\/rewards-arent-the-key-to-employee-motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewards Aren&#8217;t the Key to Employee Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cornerstone On Demand <\/em>has the post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornerstoneondemand.com\/rework\/ted-talk-tuesday-rewards-arent-key-employee-motivation\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Talk Tuesday: Rewards Aren&#8217;t the Key to Employee Motivation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn his TED Talk, &#8220;The Puzzle of Motivation,&#8221; Pink explores what motivates people and how company leaders can apply this research to their own organizations. He goes on to explain what social scientists know, but most managers don&#8217;t: Traditional rewards aren&#8217;t always as effective as we think.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/dan_pink_on_motivation\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900;\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>There is a lot of truth here, but don&#8217;t get carried away by a good sales pitch. <\/p>\n<p>Some detail about the subject of motivation can be gleaned from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Maslow&#8217;s hierarchy of needs<\/a>, coincidentally from <em>WikiPedia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-weight:normal; font-style: normal;\"><p>\n<strong>Maslow&#8217;s hierarchy of needs<\/strong> is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper &#8220;A Theory of Human Motivation&#8221; in <em>Psychological Review<\/em>. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/33\/MaslowsHierarchyOfNeeds.svg\/300px-MaslowsHierarchyOfNeeds.svg.png\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbimage\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/33\/MaslowsHierarchyOfNeeds.svg\/450px-MaslowsHierarchyOfNeeds.svg.png 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/33\/MaslowsHierarchyOfNeeds.svg\/600px-MaslowsHierarchyOfNeeds.svg.png 2x\" data-file-width=\"1052\" data-file-height=\"744\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\"\/><br \/>Maslow&#8217;s hierarchy of needs, represented as a pyramid with the more basic needs at the bottom\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Companies I worked for had the practice of periodically announcing special rewards for exceptional achievement.  I don&#8217;t know how much of an incentive this presented to the winners of the award, but I frequently observed what a disincentive it was to all those people who thought they had done great work, but did not receive any special award or acclaim.  To the &#8220;self-actualized&#8221; people, the lack of a reward was only a temporary disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>I was led to this video by a comment on the post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2019\/04\/belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it\u2019s bad for you<\/a> in <em>Naked Capitalism<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMeritocracy has become a leading social ideal. Politicians across the ideological spectrum continually return to the theme that the rewards of life \u2013 money, power, jobs, university admission \u2013 should be distributed according to skill and effort. The most common metaphor is the \u2018even playing field\u2019 upon which players can rise to the position that fits their merit. Conceptually and morally, meritocracy is presented as the opposite of systems such as hereditary aristocracy, in which one\u2019s social position is determined by the lottery of birth. Under meritocracy, wealth and advantage are merit\u2019s rightful compensation, not the fortuitous windfall of external events.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here, again, is an article with some merit, but be very careful that you don&#8217;t get carried away with the ideas in the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornerstone On Demand has the post Ted Talk Tuesday: Rewards Aren&#8217;t the Key to Employee Motivation. In his TED Talk, &#8220;The Puzzle of Motivation,&#8221; Pink explores what motivates people and how company leaders can apply this research to their own organizations. He goes on to explain what social scientists know, but most managers don&#8217;t: Traditional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27250"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27261,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27250\/revisions\/27261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}