I was sitting in Management 101 class, and this dawned on me.
"Rewarding hard work with more work." Hunh, interesting, I never thought about it that way.
But wait, hang on a second. That makes sense to be a management style and philosophy. It simply makes sense to reward hard work with more work. If someone is the best at the job, it stands to reason that they would take on more and more responsibility for that particular task.
Of course, this means the company has to pay them more. The company must compensate them justly for doing all that work -- give that particular employee a well-deserved raise.
"Everyone deserves a fair chance"? I don’t think so. If a person has demonstrated that they are the best for doing a particular assignment, then that is the best person for the job. If another wants a crack at it, they first have to prove that they would do an excellent job.
Why is the whole entire media and social influence saying that people should be praised for effort only instead of actual results? This includes general news of public schools -- students’ performance as well as teachers’ performance.
(This is when the first thoughts of efficiency occurred to me; that of, why reward someone for expending *more* resources, and *more* energy to get at the *same* results... Just because they worked harder and used more effort, doesn’t mean anything if they arrived at the exact same _solution_
Hard work is good and all, the straining effort to complete tasks. But, wouldn’t it be better option to be genuinely good at your job? It would be most logical and reasonable to have some innate talent (affinity) for it in the first place.
and then hone it, refine it. Bring that skill into laser-focus.
-let's say for example that there is someone exceptionally intelligent. And they solve a problem using straightforward logic, applying all necessary knowledge which they do possess, towards achieving a solution.
-Come on. We are all scientists. We understand efficiency. We appreciate logic and reason.
There is so much irritating, blathering natter.
*Like in workforce e.g. -- Let us suppose that an employee of a business is a lot smarter, and they arrive at a feasible solution much faster, much sooner than some other employee. Why do they receive less credit and less recognition than an employee that needs a lot more effort??
For goodness sake, my own town's public school district is distributing this little flyer/pamphlet thing out to kids' families, that orders parents, "do not just praise results, praise efforts."
"Rewarding hard work with more work." Hunh, interesting, I never thought about it that way.
But wait, hang on a second. That makes sense to be a management style and philosophy. It simply makes sense to reward hard work with more work. If someone is the best at the job, it stands to reason that they would take on more and more responsibility for that particular task.
Of course, this means the company has to pay them more. The company must compensate them justly for doing all that work -- give that particular employee a well-deserved raise.
"Everyone deserves a fair chance"? I don’t think so. If a person has demonstrated that they are the best for doing a particular assignment, then that is the best person for the job. If another wants a crack at it, they first have to prove that they would do an excellent job.
Why is the whole entire media and social influence saying that people should be praised for effort only instead of actual results? This includes general news of public schools -- students’ performance as well as teachers’ performance.
(This is when the first thoughts of efficiency occurred to me; that of, why reward someone for expending *more* resources, and *more* energy to get at the *same* results... Just because they worked harder and used more effort, doesn’t mean anything if they arrived at the exact same _solution_
Hard work is good and all, the straining effort to complete tasks. But, wouldn’t it be better option to be genuinely good at your job? It would be most logical and reasonable to have some innate talent (affinity) for it in the first place.
and then hone it, refine it. Bring that skill into laser-focus.
-let's say for example that there is someone exceptionally intelligent. And they solve a problem using straightforward logic, applying all necessary knowledge which they do possess, towards achieving a solution.
-Come on. We are all scientists. We understand efficiency. We appreciate logic and reason.
There is so much irritating, blathering natter.
*Like in workforce e.g. -- Let us suppose that an employee of a business is a lot smarter, and they arrive at a feasible solution much faster, much sooner than some other employee. Why do they receive less credit and less recognition than an employee that needs a lot more effort??
For goodness sake, my own town's public school district is distributing this little flyer/pamphlet thing out to kids' families, that orders parents, "do not just praise results, praise efforts."
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