Productivity and Rewards
Reading passage
An important management principle is that when behavior is rewarded, it tends to be repeated. It follows that in many business enterprises, the approach to getting employees to work hard or improve productivity is to reward them with money or company stock. In addition, some enterprises use other forms of compensation such as special privileges or perhaps promotion or job reassignments or even company-paid luxury vacations and other bonuses in kind. All such rewards are usually tied in to some index of performance, which precisely calculates the relative amount of increased productivity.
Whatever the type of reward given, managerial consultants point out that the promise of such incentives improves employee attitudes, motivation, and productivity. Typical business handbooks describing compensation methods advocate giving the greatest rewards to those who perform the best. For example, a well-known academic text on incentives points out that "the closer the link between job performance and rewards, the greater the motivational effect."
Advocates of improving productivity through rewards tacitly accept that people are rather like physical bodies that require the application of some external motivating force to be set in motion.
Furthermore, they argue that any such incentives must have a high perceived value to the employee and must also be perceived as within the reach of that person. If the productivity goal appears beyond the reach of the person striving for the reward, then the motivational effect will be lower and productivity may decline. But if the reward system is correctly structured, productivity experts argue, it is possible to persuade people to achieve remarkable results.
The lecture and the excerpt describe the effects of a reward system on the productivity of employees’ working in business enterprises. While the passage advocates for the implementation of structured rewards linked to employee performance, the lecture contradicts it, stating two specific points.
The first point established by the passage is that enterprises may use different types of rewards to incentivize productivity among their employees. These rewards can take the form of special privileges, promotions, and bonuses. However, the professor remarks that survey findings indicate that people want to be paid money for their effort and earn respect. Additionally, people do not like this kind of compensation because they feel controlled and manipulated.
The second point made by the passage is that managerial consultants and academic texts underline that there should be a clear and close link between the reward and the performance outcome. A stronger link between these two aspects will mean more motivation and better results. However, the lecture refutes this by stating that even though a goal is reachable, when the employee does not accomplish it, the more desirable the prize, the higher the feeling of disappointment. Eventually, the incentive becomes a punishment for the employee. Since people do not want to be punished, the awards system can be counterproductive.
In conclusion, while some literature supports reward systems in the search of productivity, according to the lecture, these compensations might be against the employees’ welfare and results, which can negatively affect the company.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 585, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'awards'' or 'award's'?
Suggestion: awards'; award's
... people do not want to be punished, the awards system can be counterproductive. In...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, second, so, while, in conclusion, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1389.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 246.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.64634146341 5.08290768461 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96035189615 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.18120274356 2.5805825403 123% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593495934959 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 422.1 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.8665874836 49.2860985944 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.75 110.228320801 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 7.06452816374 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213514457533 0.272083759551 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0746111781738 0.0996497079465 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0718751472768 0.0662205650399 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13126260762 0.162205337803 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0530546348984 0.0443174109184 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 53.8541721854 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.49 12.2367328918 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.57 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 585, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'awards'' or 'award's'?
Suggestion: awards'; award's
... people do not want to be punished, the awards system can be counterproductive. In...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, second, so, while, in conclusion, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1389.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 246.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.64634146341 5.08290768461 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96035189615 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.18120274356 2.5805825403 123% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593495934959 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 422.1 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.8665874836 49.2860985944 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.75 110.228320801 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 7.06452816374 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213514457533 0.272083759551 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0746111781738 0.0996497079465 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0718751472768 0.0662205650399 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13126260762 0.162205337803 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0530546348984 0.0443174109184 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 53.8541721854 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.49 12.2367328918 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.57 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.