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alfie kohn

Is Cash the Best Motivator?: Is Cash the Best Motivator?Cash vs. noncash awards.For close to 20 years I've had a close relationship with Maritz Inc., the company in Missouri that's all about getting more out of a company's prime stakeholders: both direct employees and the folks who work in the channel, whether for dealers, franchisees...; Tags: team, Maritz Inc., Alfie Kohn; Discussion threads 2008-07-03

When Incentives Fail: Do incentives really work? We've seen a spate of behavioral economists arguing incentives do, and encouraging companies and government to offer incentives, or 'nudges,' to promote behaviors. A reader, Peter A. Hunter, sends this review of "Punished by Rewards," Alfie Kohn's 1999 book arguing that incentives often...; Tags: Incentive, Sales Force Management, Sales, Michael Fitzgerald; Blog posts 2009-03-10
Harvard Business Review on Compensation: This collection will help managers and human resource professionals weigh the pros and cons of different compensation plans and provide a framework for thinking about this important aspect of the war for talent. John Case, Alfie Kohn, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Alfred Rappaport and Egon Zehnder (244 pp., paperback, 2002); Tags: compensation, Harvard Business Review; Research articles 2004-07-01
Give critics of homework an F for sloppy research: A new book comes out and the media are in a tizzy over the time- tested benefits of homework. A university researcher documents what he calls the negligible benefits of homework, based on an author's sizzling tirade of a book against homework (Alfie Kohn's "The Homework Myth"), and America seemingly...; Tags: Benefits, Cooper; Research articles 2006-09-17