Sadly that misses the point Don - at least of this brand of motivation. Years ago I did some consultancy in which the whole firm went over to project teams and something like Orn's link. The first problem was with the routine and scut work - no one wanted any of this and it still had to be done. Soon people were really 'skilled'in being project team leaders and workers, but only one group actually produced any viable projects, the rest all being attempts to take over existing work and pretend to do something novel with it. The non- productive were all the established managers. One day,the productive group called me into a meeting and called me an utter bastard. They had tumbled to the real plan, which was about identifying how much work really needed to be done. They pointed out this wasn't much and I pointed out they had really done all this by themselves. Orn's link fails to address why we find bonus schemes so unappetising - often because they ain't remotely fair and don't measure or encourage what really needs doing. We may already have ideas about work we don't admit to that affect of behaviour. Piecework is actually popular where the tasks are genuinely the same. This is rarely the case. All this guy does is present the ludicrous textbook crap and show an almost equally pathetic alternative. The truth is most work don't need doing, we just manufacture it to give people jobs or get the ones we don't want to do done. We motivate by letting people starve or be sneered at if they don't work at getting money.
On 3 June, 14:00, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hm. Let's do a test run. Let's cut all federal salaries in half. Let's > eliminate all the jobs from the people that quit. Of course, we won't cut > salaries below, say, 35K because that would just be cruel. They'd all be so > motivated productivity would double. > > dj > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:24 PM, ornamentalmind > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc&feature=channel > > > So much for capitalism!
