Remove Creative Accounting Remove Ethics Remove Human Resources Remove Motivation
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Eliminate Slogans, Exhortations and Targets

Deming Institute

The best policy may be to avoid incentives altogether and focus instead on creating systems in which intrinsic motivation, cooperation, ethical behavior, trust, creativity, and joy in work can flourish. Gipsie Ranney, The Trouble with Incentives: They Work. This change reduced the turnover ratio while improving nothing.

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