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In this sense the firm may be described as hoping for performance, while rewarding attendance. What it gets, of course, is attendance.
Steven Kerr On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B · 1975

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“Managers who complain that their workers are not motivated might do well to consider the possibility that they have installed reward systems which are paying off for behaviors other than those they are seeking.”

Steven Kerr · On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B, 1975 · Primary source

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