Rethinking Carrots & Sticks: The Science of Motivation
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2010-01-05/rethinking-carrots-sticks-science-motivation
Most workplaces are organized around a simple assumption: that employees are motivated to achieve goals by promise of rewards (usually financial), and the threat of sanctions. But author Daniel Pink says that our common assumptions about carrots and sticks are in tension with scientific research. Kojo explores new insights in the science of motivation, and how it applies to personal and professional decisions.
Guests
Daniel Pink
Author, "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us" (Pub: Riverhead Books)
Related Links
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I am loving this show.
I attend 2 conference calls a week for work. In one, the moderator encourages discussion. He teases us in a humorous way. He's not reluctant to compliment our work.
In the other, a different moderator sounds as though he's intoning from on high to us peons. Much as I try, I cannot react well to that yap, yap, yapping from on high. You should do this; you should do that - as though we're not working hard already.
I'm human, your guest would suggest? Ok. That's all right with me then.
Thanks for the great show!
Sounds great, but it requires that managers or supervisors compromise their power and authority, so, unless people rethink about management and work to reform, it will become just another great theory that would be ignored in the workplaces.
I agree with the above comments.
I just saw a survey on job satisfaction. Turns out the people who still have jobs are increasingly dissatisfied with them (and thus less productive/creative). And this is an economic climate that SUCKS!
I don't know the source of managment belief that employees are expendable, interchangeable and a mere expense vs strength for the business, but it is clear that this is a dominate thinking process in many large businesses. Otherwise, people wouldn't find shrinking paychecks, lessened benefits and the like.
Optimistically, when we ultimately emerge from the Great Recession, those staid, backward looking firms will find their talent leaving in large numbers for those firms who are more humane. And more successful!
These are the firms I'm seeking and, I'm sure, so are many other repressed creative workers.