Noted behavioral economist Dan Ariely asks, "If I gave you $10,000 to be funny in the next minute, could you do it?" It turns out that giving someone more money to do something can actually make it harder for them to accomplish the task at hand. In the first part of this BigThink video, Ariely discusses research into whether offering workers more money produces better work:
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08-14-2009 11:18 AM
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Graham Griffith