Punished by Rewards: The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A'S, Praise, and Other Bribes - Brossura

Kohn, Alfie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0395710901 ISBN 13: 9780395710906

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993

Riassunto

The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in six words: do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people in much the same way that we train a family pet. The quick fix of rewards may seem to be effective, but manipulating people with external incentives actually kills their interest in what they are doing and lowers the quality of their work. Indeed, Kohn shows that the decline in our workplaces and classrooms may be related to our acceptance of a theory of motivation derived from lab animals. Drawing on a wealth of psychological research, he points the way to a more successful strategy based on working with people instead of doing things to them. "Do rewards motivate people?" asks Kohn. "Yes. They motivate people to get rewards." Seasoned with humor and familiar examples, Punished By Rewards presents an argument unsettling to hear but impossible to dismiss.

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Book by Kohn Alfie

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0395710901
• ISBN 13: 9780395710906
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 398
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile