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You should clarify what you mean, and I think what you mean is behavioral analysis of performance based on differing reward schedules. As I understand it, and
by DannoHung 17y ago
You should clarify what you mean, and I think what you mean is behavioral analysis of performance based on differing reward schedules.
As I understand it, and this is fairly amoral, mind you, the best reward schedule to encourage productivity is to inform subjects that they will be rewarded for certain activities and then just reward them after a random number of actions (not time).
Slot machines are the classic example, but I believe you could extend it to much more exhausting tasks such as rare loot drops in MMORPGs and, ostensibly, work tasks.
- TheSOB88 17y agoNah, man, not when you want people to want to do the work. That's the point of the article - people want loot, not killing the same monster over and over. Likewise, if you give people rewards, they'll want the reward, but they won't produce quality work because they're just focusing on getting to the goal.
- khafra 17y agoSounds like a very Buddhist perspective on motivation--mindfulness, awareness of the present, and all that. How do Buddhist companies generally compare to traditional capitalist companies? Which strategy prevails in, say, Japan or China?