Motivation in The Workplace
In class we talked about the positives and negatives of motivating and rewarding employees. It was the general consensus that constantly rewarding employees is a bad idea. While I understand the concept of this, I believe that it is important to have reward based goals for employees. If they continuously meet their expectations then they will continuously be rewarded. This goes against the de-motivation theory. However, if the employees are always meeting their goals, is there really anything that needs fixing? If the employees are doing so well, then maybe they do deserve to be pampered. The argument against this would be to say that the extra money spent on the employees could be extra profit. The flaw with this argument is that your superb teams will leave the company once they find out how good they really are if they aren’t pampered.
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Posted by: jms18
Posted on: October 12, 2005 05:26 PM
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Posted by: Ish Bhalla
Posted on: November 4, 2005 07:37 PM
If employees are doing well by meeting all of their goals and are constantly rewarded for this, they will only expect more from the company. Instead of the incentive being a reward, it will become just another part of the paycheck. This could just waste company money and may not even motivate employees. I wrote more about this in my web log.