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Small signals of appreciation have a decisive influence on the output and quality of the work of employees. A field experiment of KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) economist Petra Nieken and two colleagues revealed that a combination of performance-oriented piece wage and motivating words increases the performance by 20% and reduces the error rate by 40%.
"Our results are relevant to entrepreneurial practice," Nieken emphasizes. She holds the Chair for Human Resources Management of KIT's Institute of Management. How can staff members be motivated? Theory lists two instruments: Financial incentives, such as bonuses or piece wages, and the capability of executives to motivate their staff members. The question whether and how these two instruments complement, strengthen or weaken each other, however, is not clearly answered by theory. That is why this question was in the focus of the study performed at Bonn University.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Grishnakh on Thursday October 22 2015, @11:49PM
I'm sorry, but a bunch of nice words and pats on the back aren't worth shit to me; there's several factors that determine if I like a job, but the big ones are:
1) money (no surprise)
2) work environment - now here's the one that most employers these days have no fucking clue on. At this point, I would just love to have another job where I make good money (#1), and have a fucking cubicle, just like in the good ol' days of the 1990s. I want to be able to sit down at my desk, in front of my computer (preferably with two large screens--these things are cheap these days), and NOT see streams of people walking by because I'm on a busy corridor with low walls, or have to sit 6 inches from a coworker because they're too cheap to allocate enough room for everyone to have a separate cube, or have to look at another coworker's face because some idiot manager thinks having no walls is great for "collaboration", or have some asshole from another group come and lean his ass on my desk and have a chit-chat with other people in my group, again because some idiot manager stuck us together with no walls thinking this arrangement is great for "collaboration".
3) commute - locate the workplace in a good location, not in bumfuck, not in the ghetto, etc.
4) management - don't have some crazy HR lady running the company and setting up cameras in front of the restrooms to record how long employees spend in there etc. (Extron Electronics does this according to multiple postings on glassdoor.com.)
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Friday October 23 2015, @01:40AM
I take it then you don't want to be part of our motivational team? we are trying to find people to come up with signs and banners to help them feel more happy at work in a way that doesn't point out to them how expensive sounding their incessant demands are!
I was consulting at a place that adoped the "why what how" thing. OMG. management didn't even read the book, some corporate life coach told them it would be a good idea to help increase billable hours by incentivizing people to work more. it was hilarious, but uh no, motivation actually wasn't helped, but I will always remember them for it and how you can't just print posters and make people come in, unpaid for a mandatory important business all employee meeting, to learn that they are going to Embrace Why... and then not expect people to ask WTF.