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So If I didn’t misread, as long as you continously give the incentive, everythings fine and still works as intended? For teaching this is ofc dumb and explici

by setr 8y ago

So If I didn’t misread, as long as you continously give the incentive, everythings fine and still works as intended? For teaching this is ofc dumb and explicitly not the outcome you want, but for eg sales incentives, it works as expected (and probably much easier to do than convince your marketers that they really do want to sell that product at the highest price for the benefit of everyone and everything)

Eridrus 8y ago
As long as you don't remove it, you haven't made performance worse, but you may not have made it better either, and you have probably done damage to intrinsic motivation. For sales, this may be fine, to the extent that no one has intrinsic motivation for sales, and the countervailing forces of how sales folks are usually compensated, but fixed salaries are probably better for motivation, but maybe not for your hiring/cash flow.