rewarding in business

The reading passage is about how devising a precise and well-structured system of rewarding improves productivity in a business. According to the reading, this reward can be in form of money, financial assistance, or job-related privileges. However, the professor points out some drawbacks of such tact and casts doubt on the points made by the passage. For the beginning, the professor explains that a rewarding system may result in counter-productivity, instead of boosting efficacy. He suggests that a reward will be perceived as a punishment, and the workers may feel as they are being controlled and manipulated. The more the reward is greater, the more the disappointment from not achieving it will be. Taking into account that most of the workers are not going to win the reward, leaves us with the fact that in long term the workforce will be significantly unsatisfied, and will feel like being punished. This is contrary to the passage that claims the bigger the reward is, the higher the productivity will be. Moreover, the professor explicitly highlights that the rewarding system will jeopardize the collaborative works. He gives an example of an employee, who may not inform his supervisor of an error, which he has made, in order to secure the possibility of winning the reward for good performance. This undermines the premise of the passage that believes the motivation provided by such incentives improves the attitudes of the employees.