Bookmarked for the future: looks very interesting.
I suspect bonuses don't so much predict or encourage high performance as they do boom and bust high risk schemes that "mimic" high performance but can have huge consequences.
I'm betting that the narrative forms get into common use, the odds of them being used will drop to the same level you see for standard forms-- the current greater use is a little about the friendliness, but mostly about about novelty.
I'd love to know how well it works for you. There's already been a discussion on Hacker News of someone trying a followup that didn't get the desired results, along with theories as to why this might be.
The comments to that atheism/IQ article are largely moronic. 'Who cares? What is on average in this matter does not interest me. This has become a confession of faith to atheist liberals. I hope it makes them less perceptive of their decline, more overconfident, more blunt, more arrogant and more clinging to their false beliefs. Average is to them a way of avoiding the details. Averages often seem to "support" hegemonic ideology. By the way, have you noticed that probability of God arises from atheist physics?' Yes, that's certainly a convincing argument. And I'm not even an atheist.
Poorly designed incentive systems don't work & they are incredibly difficult to get right.
What do organisations do with this knowledge, however? Taking a basic sales role in financial services, the base is likely to be relatively low. If an orgnisation removes the incentives (which may be substantial), do they then increase the base pay & by how much? How much will someone (who is probably fairly risk-seeking) be willing to sacrifice potential reward for certainty?
I'd be interested to understand what the media & the public would think about large increases to base salaries. I suspect the longer term incentives & clawback systems might be more acceptable all round.
The normalising of homosexuality and Valentine's Day was sweet and thought provoking until the end, where the MEN AND THEIR SPORTS, THINK THEY WANNA DO EACH OTHER UP THE ASS stereotype came in.
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Date: 2010-02-28 12:20 am (UTC)I suspect bonuses don't so much predict or encourage high performance as they do boom and bust high risk schemes that "mimic" high performance but can have huge consequences.
Will see what the book says.
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Date: 2010-02-27 02:43 pm (UTC)Amen!!!!
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Date: 2010-02-27 03:15 pm (UTC)Although how many people would still think she was a weirdo if they knew she was poly? Plus ça change...
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Date: 2010-02-27 06:02 pm (UTC)What do organisations do with this knowledge, however? Taking a basic sales role in financial services, the base is likely to be relatively low. If an orgnisation removes the incentives (which may be substantial), do they then increase the base pay & by how much? How much will someone (who is probably fairly risk-seeking) be willing to sacrifice potential reward for certainty?
I'd be interested to understand what the media & the public would think about large increases to base salaries. I suspect the longer term incentives & clawback systems might be more acceptable all round.
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Date: 2010-02-27 10:18 pm (UTC)Bleah.
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