Alfie Kohn Quotes About Employees

Quotes about: Employees

• If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone - employers and employees - from the issues that really matter.

  Alfie Kohn

  Issues, Doe, Pay

• Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.

  Alfie Kohn

  Thinking, Competition, Employee

• The legendary statistical consultant W. Edwards Deming, . . . has called the system by which merit is appraised and rewarded 'the most powerful inhibitor to quality and productivity in the Western world' . . . it is simply unfair to the extent that employees are held responsible for what are, in reality, systemic factors that are beyond their control.

  Alfie Kohn

  Powerful, Reality, Quality

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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