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Bonus or No Bonus? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Bonus or no bonus? There is a tremendous amount of conflicting data as to whether or not incentive compensation in any form is an effective motivation tool. That is the question.

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The Economics of Why Companies Don’t Fix Their Toxic Cultures

Harvard Business Review

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. Rules may be followed to the letter, but not in spirit. naqiewei/Getty Images. Principal-agent problems.

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When Tough Performance Goals Lead to Cheating

Harvard Business Review

Setting goals is one of the established tools that managers have to increase staff motivation and performance. This research was recently published in the Journal of Business Ethics. Each person played the role of a sales manager and answered a series of questions about the business they “worked” for.

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Cheating at Harvard, and in the "Real World"

Harvard Business Review

Unfortunately for the accused, they are students — not engineers or project managers — and the professor meant to ban such collaboration in his instructions to the test. The higher the stakes of the test, the greater the incentive to cheat. There was absolutely no incentive to learn any material."