Most of the time, the kinds of rewards given in organizations and teams are expected. Or calculated. They are supposed to happen. When people do quality work, they expect someone to say, “Great job.” When we help a colleague move from one office to another, carrying dirty boxes all day, we might expect a “Thank you,” a card, or bottle of wine.
I never really thought about rewards in quite this way. It’s a great insight. In retrospect, I saw this phenomenon play out when I was a university administrator. For instance, some faculty felt they were entitled to a sabbatical at regular intervals even though policies explicitly stated that sabbatical benefits had to be earned. When their sabbatical did not manifest because they did not earn it, they would act as though they were deprived of a right.
Great coincidence for me as I'm covering rewards in my qualification. At my place of work they have all the expected rewards and most of the time you do get them. The rewards they most struggle with are the irregular for doing a good job or rewarding your talent by developing you.
I got my wife to read the issue as well as we have three young children and discussed how this theory could impact on their motivation to complete tasks.
This was a fun one to talk thru...
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I never really thought about rewards in quite this way. It’s a great insight. In retrospect, I saw this phenomenon play out when I was a university administrator. For instance, some faculty felt they were entitled to a sabbatical at regular intervals even though policies explicitly stated that sabbatical benefits had to be earned. When their sabbatical did not manifest because they did not earn it, they would act as though they were deprived of a right.
Yes, those precedent benefits become expected just like rewards do.
The handbook doesn't define it quite like the 2-3 year precedent does.
Do you think this may have been tied to a previous administrator who turned the sabbatical into an expectation inadvertently?
Valuable advice for a dad that I wish I had operated on much earlier.
Great coincidence for me as I'm covering rewards in my qualification. At my place of work they have all the expected rewards and most of the time you do get them. The rewards they most struggle with are the irregular for doing a good job or rewarding your talent by developing you.
I got my wife to read the issue as well as we have three young children and discussed how this theory could impact on their motivation to complete tasks.
A thought-provoking issue.