COMM 222 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Motivation, Highscope, Job Rotation
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Money as a motivator: pay is in fact a very important motivator. Piece-rate: a pay system in which individual workers are paid a certain sum of money for each unit of production completed. Wage incentive plans: various systems that link pay to performance on production jobs. Potential problems with wage incentives: differential opportunity, reduced cooperation: wage incentives can increase productivity at the expense of quality some workers may be at an unfair disadvantage under an incentive. Incompatible job design: small) the artificial limitation of work output can occur under wage incentive plans. Workers feel that increased productivity will lead to reductions in the workforce or reduce the rate of payment to cut labour costs. it may be very difficult to implement wage incentives (big teams vs. fear of earning less. No help or maintenance: restriction of productivity: Job design as a motivator: the use of money as a motivator is primarily an attempt to capitalize on extrinsic motivation.
