Incentives
I think that incentives are a great thing to have in a workplace. It was stated that in class that pay "may undermine intrinsic motivation." I find this to be untrue in relation to myself. When I get out of college, I would love to get a job in which I have a certain set pay, but I also make commission. I love selling things to people. I worked at a job over the summer, in which I didn't work on commission, but I sold stuff to people everyday and I loved it. Selling things to people gives me intrinsic motivation because I like to see people happy with what they are purchasing and I don't try to sell something that I know the customer will not be entirely happy with. By working on commission, I would get the intrinsic motivation of making my customers happy, but I will also be rewarded with money, which will be an extrinsic motivation. I think it just depends on what kind of incentives you are getting and the way you go about getting those incentives. I wouldn't go about getting the money from commission as simply receiving money, but as something that motivates me to help someone be happy and just getting an extra bonus of money from that.
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