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How to Demotivate Your Best Employees
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How to Demotivate Your Best Employees

Dina Gerdeman
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2013
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Recognition motivates employees, yet some company award programs have the opposite effect. A recent Harvard Business School study reveals that it matters a great deal how managers award employees, and for what. Freelance writer Dina Gerdeman talked with one of the study’s co-authors to find out how a well-intentioned incentive program ended up alienating a company’s most valuable employees. getAbstract recommends her article to managers who want to recognize their employees the right way.

Take-Aways

  • Ian Larkin from Harvard Business School led a study on a nine-month-long attendance award program designed to boost productivity at an industrial laundry facility.
  • To discourage tardiness, the plant manager enrolled every employee with perfect attendance in a raffle to win a $75 gift card.
  • Although the program curbed tardiness, it lead to a 1.4% drop in worker productivity.

About the Author

Dina Gerdeman is a freelance news and features writer for Harvard Business School and other outlets. 

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