incentives
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Brain power
How we can better detect misinformation
Offering positive incentives to overcome the perverse incentives to share misinformation online.
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Community
‘There is a problem’: Australia’s top scientist Alan Finkel pushes to eradicate bad science
A significant number of papers are of poor quality. In considering why this might be the case, I have found…
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Brain power
Variables that moderate the impact of incentives on knowledge sharing behaviour
Studies examining rewards for knowledge sharing behaviours have come to contradicting conclusions. One reason for this is that there are…
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Brain power
The power of non-financial incentives
Managers and supervisors who want to motivate and retain workers need to create jobs that offer more to employees than…
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Brain power
Vital Signs: the power of not being too clear
Counterintuitively, vague incentives are often stronger than clear ones.
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Brain power
New study reveals how incentives can boost unethical behavior
However, better outcomes are achieved when our performance related bonuses are spent on people other than ourselves.
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Systems & complexity
Why you get “results” when you pay for results
Financial incentives have unprecedented ability to strongly distort behaviour, often in undesirable ways.
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Systems & complexity
Kerr’s lessons are still not being learnt
Misaligned expectations and rewards are a recipe for disaster.