On 01/14/2014 12:51 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:52:46 -0500, Robert Schweikert wrote:
After reading Drive by Daniel H. Pink recently I am more convinced than ever that we should stay away from anything that has any kind of awards, rewards, points, or whatever attached to it.
Systems of "do this - get that" barely work in the "pay for world" of employment.
I would also tend to agree with that (also having read Drive). Recognition tends to be more valuable and a better motivator than points.
Points also tend to make for a more competitive environment rather than a cooperative environment, and a cooperative environment is what I think we need to be aiming at.
Otherwise, there's the danger of (for example) people working on bugs not working together to resolve them because "they want the points" (I know a few people who are strongly motivated by "points" - I guess because "points mean prizes" to some people.
That said, there does perhaps need to be a method for measuring contribution.
I have no problem with showing what people do. I think just showing the person "logging in to connect" or whatever system what they've done, or showing how many people use ones packages, yet another discussion started in another thread, turns into a self motivating factor. People will try to "better themselves". I think as soon as the system moves toward comparison to others with top 10 lists, points, or what not it turns into an "if - then" system. I believe "if - then" systems miss the mark and probably are more demotivating for a large number of people rather than being motivating. Later, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead Public Cloud Architect rjschwei@suse.com rschweik@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org