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Punished by rewards : the trouble with gold stars, incentive plans, A's, praise, and other bribes / Alfie Kohn ; with a new afterword by the author.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [1999]Description: xiv, 431 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0618001816
Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in six words: Do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people in much the same way we train the family pet. Drawing on a wealth of psychological research, Alfie Kohn points the way to a more successful strategy based on working with people instead of doing things to them. "Do rewards motivate people?" asks Kohn. "Yes. They motivate people to get rewards." Seasoned with humor and familiar examples, Punished By Rewards presents an argument unsettling to hear but impossible to dismiss.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book AIDE Canada Main Library 01:00.a KOHN.l 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 103903

Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-411) and indexes.

The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in six words: Do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people in much the same way we train the family pet. Drawing on a wealth of psychological research, Alfie Kohn points the way to a more successful strategy based on working with people instead of doing things to them. "Do rewards motivate people?" asks Kohn. "Yes. They motivate people to get rewards." Seasoned with humor and familiar examples, Punished By Rewards presents an argument unsettling to hear but impossible to dismiss.