Incentives
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Repetition Compulsion at Citigroup
When I saw an article reported in the New York Times about Citigroup’s plan to increase employees' base salaries by a much as 50% to offset the reduction in bonuses I was reminded of Sigmund Freud’s…
Bonuses Don’t Work? It’s Elementary, Dear Watson
I read an article from the New Zealand Herald by Simon Caulkin (3.16.09) that caused me to alternate between depression and excitement. The title of the article is: Bonuses boost performance? Sorry,…
AIG Is At It Again
AIG is in the news again. They are being beat over the head because someone has found that they have 374 bonus plans. While most people are upset seeing the word attached to AIG in any way, the fact…
Need We Say More About the Impact of Bonuses...
Is it possible to have 374 different bonus and compensation plans?! This recent article from Politico uncovers the half-truths and realities of how AIG compensated its employees (AIG Bonuses…
Thinking About Cutting Bonuses?
I wrote earlier on this blog about the fact that AIG gave the word "bonus" a bad name but the issue of bonuses keeps popping up. I have read lately in several business articles that some businesses…
When Will They Ever Learn?
I was recently reading a paper on "grade inflation" published by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. It states that "In the face of acknowledged grade inflation, the Princeton…
AIG Gives Bonuses a Bad Name
Everybody is talking about AIG again. The conversation is about how they continue to throw tax-payer money away. Over the weekend new details of AIG’s bonus plans were made public. In a nutshell the…
Monetary Incentives
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Hi Aubrey !!
My name is Scott, I am a human performance technologist. My question is:
Bill Abernathy in his book Managing Without Supervising suggested that R+ systems without monetary…
