Motivation

We try to motivate workers in the same way that we try to motivate our children.

In the Glucksberg experiment, the people who were offered a reward finished faster than people who were not offered one.

The people who were offered smaller rewards in Ariely's experiment performed better than those offered bigger rewards.

In Ariely's experiment, people were more creative when they were concentrating on achieving a goal.

In the future, jobs will require workers to be more creative.

People always work better when they start the day later and work into the night.

Companies that give employees time during the week to work on things that interest them and are not part of their regular job achieve amazing things.

More and more simple jobs will become automated.

This experiment of Sam Glucksberg, from Princeton University, America, hasn't been repeated anymore.

We think we know how to motivate people offering them a reward.

We motivate people by ...

When social psychologists test whether incentives work, they get ...

The first group, the ones with the reward, solved the problem ...

Sam Glucksberg offered one group a reward for finishing fast - ... dollars for anyone finishing in the top.

The first group solved the problem three and a half minutes ...

This experiment has been carried out ...

If we want someone to do something complex, something creative, something where they have to think, then ...

Companies that give employees time during the week to work on things that interest them and are not part of their regular job achieve ...

Another study, by Dan Ariely, showed that ...

The reward made them focus on the result that they couldn’t ... any more.