TED Talk: Organizational Behavior, Individuals and Motivation
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Watch this TED talk featuring Daniel Pink. Explain your agreement or disagreement and add in theory and thoughts about individuals and motivation.
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This solution provides an opinion on the TED talk, Organizational Behavior, Individuals and Motivation, featuring Daniel Pink.
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Dan King states that there is a mismatch between what science knows and what business does when it comes to incentives and rewards. He states that rewards can kill creativity and only work for the types of tasks which have clear destinations to go. If you are a manager and offer a reward this will narrow the focus of your employees and help them to concentrate. On the other hand if the solution is on the periphery and if it doesn't have a clear set of rules, they will be looking around and this will restrict the possibility of finding the solution by narrowing their focus. Dan King also supports his hypothesis with a research of economists at London School of Economics. He states that these ...
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