How to Pay Programmers Less (2016)

Re:How to Pay Programmers Less (2016) by latte on Thursday August 15, 2019 @06:33AM (#20704013)

If I remember correctly, the advice to give raises randomly also appeared in a serious, non-ironic "How to become a CEO" book [1].

There, it was positioned as a way to make subordinates work harder and make them more loyal - people were assumed to react to fuzzy, random bonuses and raises better than to a linear relationship between results and pay.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/How-Become-CEO-Rising-Organization/dp...

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Re:How to Pay Programmers Less (2016) by kthejoker2 on Thursday August 15, 2019 @08:11AM (#20704431)

Ah yes, from the famous executive consultant BF Skinner ...

Other famous executive consultants: Pavlov, Milgram, Zimbardo, Mengele, Torequemada, Machiavelli, Sade ...

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Re:How to Pay Programmers Less (2016) by jeffusan1234 on Thursday August 15, 2019 @07:25AM (#20704202)

This is how you reward children for good behaviour too, without decreasing their intrinsic motivation for said activity, a good reference for how to motivate without using money is "Drive" by Daniel Pink.

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Re:How to Pay Programmers Less (2016) by Ididntdothis on Thursday August 15, 2019 @07:46AM (#20704283)

Works in animal training too. Intermittent rewards make them work harder because they “may” hit the jackpot from time to Time.

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