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Briefly state the main purpose of the article.

The main purpose of the article is that money is not a good motivator in the workplace. The author explains why pay incentives are not affective for long-term compliance. The author proposes that pay incentives work for a short periods in improving employee motivation. However, the author suggests that employees will revert to their old ways once all the pay incentives and motivators are gone.

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Summarize what you think is the most important information in the article. You should include details and examples from the article. Also, identify any inferences or conclusions that this article makes.

In the article the author brings up some very insightful points in the views how pay incentives actually affect the employee performance and compliance. The first significant point is the temporary compliance. Here the author suggest that pay incentives do work for a short period of time. However, in the long run, the author believes that workers will regress to their old habits. For instance, if employees are now they are going to receive a bonus, they will increase their performance. Once the company does not offer bonuses, employees will perform as they did before the bonuses before were offered. Therefore, employee work performance will revert to their old ways.

The next important point is all the research and test performed to validate the precious point. For instance, one test tested the temporary compliance and showed that individuals performed poorly when rewards were offered. Another studied demonstrated found that there is negative correlation between pay and performance. The outcome has twos inferences. One showed that higher pay does not moti...

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Pay incentives also depend on employee characteristics loyalty, and ethics. For instance, at my last job, bonuses were taken away and this did not affect my work ethics and performance. However, when my husband worked as a miner, he would receive his regular pay, plus a bonus depending on how much rock he would break. This reward encouraged my husband to work harder in order to obtain a high bonus. My husband would not have worked as hard if the bonuses were not offered.

Employers should focus on creating strategic ways in keeping employees motivated not just with pay incentives. The system should include other factors along with pay incentives, such as communication, positive environment, culture dynamism, organization operations, and feedback. The system is reliant on all factors in order to work in increasing employee performance, motivation, and compliance.