reward systems
Charles Handy on Why Reward Systems Fail
Reward and recognition programmes can cheapen motivation and backfire unless they are carefully tailored to what actually makes your employees tick. Academic and business author Charles Handy tells a story to make the point.
Handy tells how he was trying to write one day and was suffering from writer's block. A group of children came by and were playing outside his window.
For some reason, the sounds unleashed his creative juices and the words started flowing.
"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose."
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