It really depends on how you give out rewards. Give your employee $1 every time they finish 100 lines of code and they will be insulted. Give everyone a surpris

It really depends on how you give out rewards. Give your employee $1 every time they finish 100 lines of code and they will be insulted. Give everyone a surprise $1000 to celebrate a product launch and they will be excited. It seems like scientific studies often ignore this factor because it's hard to measure. So it's no surprise there is conflicted data.