Title: PSY 6450 Unit 7
1PSY 6450 Unit 7
- Performance and Satisfaction
- The Hawthorne Studies
- Intrinsic Motivation Extrinsic Rewards
Schedule Monday and Wednesday, Lecture
Monday, 12/01, Exam
2SO1 Two major speculations about the
relationship between performance and
satisfaction
- Most correlational studies have found low to
moderate positive relationships between
performance and satisfaction - Satisfaction causes performance
- Most common one
- If workers are satisfied, they will perform well
- If workers are not satisfied they will not
perform well - Performance causes satisfaction
- If workers perform well, they will be satisfied
- If workers do not perform well, they will not be
satisfied - In either case, it is hypothesized that there is
a causal relationship between the two
3SO2 Causal vs. correlational analyses and Coke
example
- Most studies that have examined the relationship
between performance and satisfaction have been
correlational. - However, you cannot determine causality from
correlational research and therein lies much of
the problem with respect to this topic - Three potential interpretations of a strong
correlation between two variables
4Coke example, analysis and diagrams
- Early 1950s, polio epidemic
- Studies found that coke consumption was highly
related to incidences of polio
(polio virus exactly what happened with ps
third variable, way rewards are delivered, headed)
5High positive, high negative relationship between
performance and satisfaction
- High positive relationship
- People who perform well are satisfied
- People who dont perform well are not satisfied
- High negative relationship
- People who perform well are not satisfied
- People who dont perform well are satisfied
(Before going on, I just want to make sure you
understand what is meant by - set the stage for
SO3, click for line performance on x axis)
6SO3 Zero relationship - 3 situationsBe able to
draw diagrams for the exam
- Random relationship
- Some who perform well are satisfied, some are not
- Some who dont perform well are satisfied, some
are not - Satisfaction is the same for all,
- performance differs
- All are relatively satisfied or
- None are relatively satisfied
- Performance is the same for all,
- satisfaction differs
- All are relatively high performers or
- All are relatively low performers
(Both sides of the same coin - be careful!!))
7SO4 Skinners analysis
- 4A Feelings and emotions are accompaniments of
behavior, not causes of behavior - 4B Both operant behaviors and feelings/emotions
are the products of the same environmental
variables/causes - 4C Satisfaction does not cause operant behavior
(performance) rather it simply occurs at the
same time because it is a conditioned response
elicited by the same environmental variables (in
this case, rewards) that are responsible for the
operant behavior (performance)
(same pt and analysis as self-eficacy, U3)
8SO4D Skinners analysis of feelings relevance
to satisfaction/performance
- Most traditional I/O psychologists maintain that
there is a causal relationship between
satisfaction and performance
- Skinners analysis would suggest, instead
C
Environmental stimulus e.g., receipt of reward
9SOs 56 What determines the relationship
according to the authors?
- (SO5) The type of reward system
- (SO6) Describe reward systems and hypothesis
about relationship between performance and
satisfaction - A random reward system will result in zero
relationship between performance and satisfaction - A positively contingent reward system will result
in a high positive relationship between
performance and satisfaction - What we usually refer to just as a contingent
relationship between performance and rewards - A negatively contingent reward system will result
in a high negative relationship between
performance and satisfaction
(the answer to this sets the stage for the entire
article state the answer to SO5, but come back
to it after we do SO6)
10SO7 Behavioral analysis Learn diagrams
- Key to the analysis
- Rewards cause/elicit satisfaction
- This is no different than what Skinner said about
piece rate pay - Piece rate pay may evoke feelings of confidence,
certainty of success, and enjoyment - He could well have added evoke feelings of
satisfaction
R (working) gt Sr (rewards)
CS (rewards) gt CR (satisfaction)
(very important diagram what you want to keep in
mind is that rewards cause satisfaction, dont
forget the CS?CR!!)
11SO7, behavioral diagrams, cont.
- Positively-contingent rewards should lead to a
high positive relationship - Good performers are rewarded
- Poor performers are not,
- Hence, the good performers who receive rewards
will be satisfied and the poor performers who do
not will not be satisfied
(note both diagrams are important!!)
12SO7, behavioral diagrams, cont.
- Negatively-contingent rewards negative
relationship - Poor performers are rewarded
- Good performers are not,
- Hence, the poor performers who receive rewards
will be satisfied and the good performers who do
not will not be satisfied
13SO7, behavioral diagrams, cont.
- Random rewards No relationship
- Equal number of good and poor performers are
rewarded and - Equal number of good and poor performers are not
rewarded - Hence, the good and poor performers who receive
rewards will be satisfied and the good and poor
performers who do not receive rewards will not be
satisfied
1/2 good and 1/2 poor performers gt Sr (rewards
sustain performance, good or bad)
CR (satisfaction)
CS (rewards)
1/2 good and 1/2 poor performers gt No Sr (no
rewards)
No CS (no rewards), hence no CR (no satisfact)
14SO8 Why is it that real high correlations btwn
performance satisfaction are unlikely?
- Some (many) rewards in the work setting are not
going - to be contingent upon performance
- Health benefits
- Retirement plans
- Flexible work hours
- Day care availability
- Good social relationships with coworkers
- Responsibility
- Independence
(Click provide at least some examples survey of
why staff work at WMU remember the components of
a compensation system from last unit - security)
15Cherrington et al., brief overview
- Participants 90 undergraduates (groups of 7-9)
- Task Scoring tests
- Sessions Two back-to-back one hour sessions
- Procedures
- Ps were told they would be paid 1.00 an hour
(1971 wages) and that the top 50 in the group
would receive an additional 1.00 bonus - Es picked up the tests every 10 minutes so they
had a measure of performance by the end of the
session - The Ps were paid after the first hour. They were
told the top performers received the 1.00 bonus - The Ps also completed a self-report satisfaction
questionnaire
16Cherrington et al., brief overview
- Procedures, cont.
- Although Ps were told the top performers received
the bonus and the bottom performers did not, in
fact the bonus was given to 1/2 of the top
performers and 1/2 of the bottom performers. This
means that - 50 of the top performers received rewards while
50 did not - 50 of the bottom performers received rewards
while 50 did not - After a 5-min break, the whole procedure was
repeated - At the end of the second hour, the monetary bonus
was given to the same individuals who received it
after the first hour - Ps once again completed a self-report
satisfaction questionnaire - (SO12) Note that the total group represents a
random reward group or system - Rewards 1/2 of top performers and 1/2 of
bottom performers - No rewards 1/2 of top performers and 1/2 of
bottom performers
17Cherrington et al., brief review
- The authors then did several comparisons by
dividing the Ps into different groups after the
study was over (between grp) - They compared the (a) performance and (b)
satisfaction of - Rewarded group vs. Nonrewarded group
- Appropriately rewarded group vs. Inappropriately
rewarded group - They then compared the relationship between
satisfaction and performance for the - Total group random reward system
- Appropriately rewarded group positively
contingent reward system - Inappropriately rewarded group negatively
contingent reward system
18SO9 Results for satisfaction forReward vs.
Nonreward groups
- Reward group
- 21 top performers
- 21 bottom performers
- Nonreward group
- 21 top performers
- 21 bottom performers
- Knowing nothing else but Rewards (CS) gt Satis
(CR) - What would you predict the results would be?
Would satisfaction be - Equal for the two groups?
- Greater for the reward group than the nonreward
group, or - Greater for the nonreward group than the reward
group? - Why?
(42 Ps who performed above md, 42 below, threw
out 6 who fell at the md answer not on click)
19SO10A Explain sub groups that comprised the
appropriately and inappropriately rewarded groups.
- Appropriate Reward Group
- 21 top performers rewards
- 21 bottom performers no rewards
- Inappropriate Reward Group
- 21 top performers no rewards
- 21 bottom performers rewards
SO10B What type of reward system is represented
by each of the above?
- Appropriate Reward Group?
Positively contingent reward system
- Inappropriate Reward Group?
Negatively contingent reward system
20SO11 Results for satisfaction of Appropriate
Reward Group vs. Inappropriate Reward Group
- Appropriate Reward Group
- 21 top performers rewards
- 21 bottom performers no rewards
- Inappropriate Reward Group
- 21 top performers no rewards
- 21 bottom performers rewards
- Knowing nothing else but Rewards (CS) gt
Satis (CR) - What would you predict the results would be?
Would satisfaction be - Equal for the two groups
- Greater for the appropriate reward group than the
inappropriate group, or - Greater for the inappropriate group than the
appropriate group? - Why?
(answer not on click!)
21SO13A The relationship between performance and
satisfaction for the three reward systems
- Total group of Ps random reward system
- Zero relationship between performance and
satisfaction - Appropriately rewarded group positively
contingent reward group - Positive relationship between performance and
satisfaction - Inappropriately rewarded group negatively
contingent reward system - Negative relationship between performance and
satisfaction
2213B Why the results make sense referring to
subgroups
- Random reward group
- 21 low performers who did not receive rewards
- 21 low performers who received rewards
- 21 high performers who did not receive rewards
- 21 high performers who received rewards
-
Equal number of performers in each quadrant, that
is 21 low performers who did not receive
rewards not satisfied 21 low performers who
received rewards satisfied 21 high performers
who did not receive rewards not satisfied 21
high performers who received rewards satisfied
2313B Why the results make sense referring to
subgroups
- Appropriately Rewarded Group
- 21 low performers who did not receive rewards
- 21 high performers who received rewards
-
-
- Inappropriately Rewarded Group
- 21 low performers who received rewards
- 21 high performers who did not receive rewards
-
-
(last slide on this next Hawthorne studies)
24Hawthorne studies, intro
- As I indicated in U1, the Hawthorne studies are
often cited as one of the most important episodes
in the history of I/O psychology and management
putting the O in I/O - Article by Parsons, published in Science in 1974,
required reading for all behavior analysts,
certainly for those in OBM - You have probably heard about the Hawthorne
effect as it relates to experimental psychology
- - Lest you think this is passe, people talk about
this effect all the time
(but, it wasnt the intention of researchers to
do that for the most part, they were looking at
the same type of variables that had been examined
in past work breaks and duration of work )
25SO14 The Hawthorne Effect
- Changes in the behavior of participants in a
study that are NOT due to the IV being examined,
but instead are due to the fact that the
participants know they are in a study
(study objectives are pretty straightforward,
thus I am only going to cover a few in lecture)
26SO15 How many studies and the dates of those
studies?
- Most textbooks only refer to the light
illumination study in the relay assembly test
room - that was only a minor study in the series
of studies - Seven studies conducted between 1924 and 1932 at
the Chicago plant of Western Electric (located
officially in Hawthorne, IL)
27Relay Assembly Test Room Study
What are relays? Electromagnetic switches used
in telephone circuits so calls could be
automatically directed to the correct place (very
basic and unsophisticated definition!!). They
have been replaced by computer chips.
Relays had from 26-52 parts most had between
34 38. Consider it a complex assembly task.
28SO18 First Relay Assembly Test Room Incentive
system and how it was altered
- Prior to the study, the assemblers were paid a
base salary and received group monetary
incentives - There were 100 workers in the unit
- When group performance exceeded a specified
standard, then each assembler received the same
amount of incentive based on the groups
productivity
(absolutely critical to mention the group
incentive plan)
29SO18 First Relay Assembly Test Room Incentive
system and how it was altered
- During the study, the pay system itself was not
altered - But, the five workers who were participants were
moved to a separate room, and their group
incentives were based on only the performance of
the five workers - now their performance
contributed 20 to the groups performance rather
than 1 - And, in fact, the wages of these five workers
(because of their increased productivity) went
from 16.00 a week to 28-50.00 a week.
30SO19 The other important difference in the Relay
Assembly Test Room
- To accurately measure performance, the
researchers implemented a new measurement system
that also provided feedback to the workers - Chutes were located at each of the assemblers
work station. When an assembler completed a
relay, she would put it in the chute which
automatically incremented a counter. The counters
displayed both individual and group performance
and were readily in view of the assemblers at all
times - Readings from the counters were taken by the
supervisor every 1/2 hour - At the end of the day, a report was issued and
posted indicating the number of relays each
worker had assembled and the total groups
productivity
31Relay Assembly Test Room
32SO22 Bank Wiring Room
- According to Homans, what factor made workers
maintain rather than increase their performance
and also made them punish members who worked too
fast even though workers were paid incentives? - Workers believed that management would lower the
piece work rate if they increased performance
and thus - They would have to work harder to get the same
amount of pay they were currently getting - What does lower the piece work rate mean?
- Decreasing the amount of incentive that is paid
for each part that is completed.
(so ever since the days of the Hawthorne we have
known that workers will restrict their output if
you increase the standards (lower the piece
rate), yet this is still the 1 error mgrs. make
with goals and incentives)
33SO23 Cohesive groups
- People often believe that cohesive groups will
perform better than non-cohesive groups. The
results from the Bank Wiring Room dispel that
myth. - While it is true that cohesive groups are
likely to control/affect the performance of group
members more effectively than non-cohesive
groups, cohesive groups can perform better or
worse than non-cohesive groups. - What determines whether cohesive groups will
perform better or worse than non-cohesive groups?
(for the exam) - The types of social/group contingencies that
members implement within the group. Do members
reinforce or punish high levels of productivity?
(that is, members in cohesive groups act more
similarly peer pressure, social
reinforcers/punishers are more potent but that
does not mean be more productive or do the
right thing fraternities alcohol poisoning
continues on the next slide)
34SO23 Cohesive groups, cont.
- Note that the group contingencies were very
different in the Bank Wiring Room than in the
first Relay Assembly Test Room study. - In the Bank Wiring Room, workers punished
individuals who performed either too well or too
poorly - In the Relay Assembly Test Room first study,
the top three workers ostracized and punished the
two poor performers, leading to their replacement
in the study
35When cohesive groups go wrong
- Hollywood Division of the Los Angeles Police
Department, early 1980s - Many division officers and detectives were
extensively involved in property crimes - They would break into retail stores and then
radio in that they were responding to the ringing
of burglar alarms - The placed the stolen goods in the trunks of
their cars and the proceeded to investigate the
break-ins - The officers later met at specific locations to
hide and sell the stolen merchandise - Officers who were not involved knew about it, but
did not report them
(aamodt example)
36The Real Hawthorne Effect (NFE)
- Generalizing from the particular situation at
Hawthorne, I would define the Hawthorne effect as
the confounding that occurs if experimenters fail
to realize how the consequences of subjects
performance affect what subjects do. - To avoid such a confound, Dont let subjects see
the data or reward them according to their
performance. But such precautions are not the
same thing as keeping subjects unaware that
they are in an experiment. - Parsons, p. 930
37Intrinsic motivation and Extrinsic Rewards
(This area of controversy, by the way, is one of
the reason I believe that every single person
trained in applied fields, including OBM, should
have a very strong conceptual/theoretical
background in BA otherwise, a person might well
be led astray by these type of issues when they
come up and/or not be able to respond adequately)
38Intro, Intrinsic motivation
- I am including this material because of a book
that was published by Daniel H. Pink in 2010
Drive The surprising truth about what motivates
us - Its become very popular in business and industry
- Bestselling list NY Times, Wall Street Journal,
Washington Post, Boston Globe, LA Times, San
Francisco Chronicle Publishers Weekly - Bestseller in Japan and United Kingdom
- Being translated into 32 languages
(has anyone read it?, former speechwriter for Al
Gore, BA from Northwestern, JD from Yale
Law written 3 other best sellers speaker circuit
for corporations, associations universities on
economic transformation and the new workplace )
39Intro, Intrinsic motivation
- Articles have appeared in the NY Times, Harvard
Business Review, Wired, Fast Company and The
Sunday Telegraph - Appeared on CNN, CNBC, ABC, NPR, etc., etc., etc.
- In 2011, Thinkers50 ranked him as one of the 50
most influential business thinkers in the world - My consulting colleagues in OBM say the same
thing as I He is driving them crazy - (to paraphrase Aubrey Daniels)
-
(his publicity material states that he uses 50
years of behavioral science to overturn the
conventional wisdom about human motivation and
offer a more effective path to high
performance. felt it necessary to talk about
this a bit Im afraid it is not going to go away
for a while and it may get worse before better)
40Intro, Intrinsic Motivation
- Motivation 1.0 The ancient human drive to
survive - Motivation 2.0 Rewards and punishment
- Motivation 3.0 Intrinsic, innate rewards that
come from autonomy, mastery, and purpose
(clearly, I am not going to do justice to his
position 2.0 replaced 1.0 and is where we are
now)
41Intro, Intrinsic Motivation
- Carrots and sticks The seven deadly flaws (p.
57) - They can extinguish intrinsic motivation
- They can diminish performance
- They can crush creativity
- They can crowd out good behavior
- They can encourage cheating, shortcuts, and
unethical behavior - They can become addictive
- They can foster short-term thinking
(his term pejorative déjà vu all over again
channeling Deci Ryan, and Alfie Kohn we dealt
with these issues 20 years ago dissertation,
1989 paper, 2 studies, 1995 paper and talks,
Camerons work instead of reinventing the wheel,
use articles that I wrote back then it doesnt
address all of these, but comes close enough
romantic view of behavior also realistic
rewards can cause problems but reward systems
are to blame, not the rewards themselves make
this point in both articles)
42SO27 Why the concern that extrinsic rewards may
decrease intrinsic motvn
- Two types of motivation intrinsic and extrinsic
and persons behavior is primarily motivated one
or the other - Intrinsic motivation is innate, and intrinsically
motivated behavior (which is self-initiated) is
believed to be more creative, spontaneous, and
flexible than extrinsically motivated behavior - Thus, the concern that extrinsic rewards
decrease much highly valued behavior
(two articles, written for behavior analysts, the
other for a lay audience study objectives over
the scholarly one Pinks position is that
autonomy, mastery, and purpose are innate drives)
43SO29 Define intrinsic motivation behaviorally
give an original example
- Intrinsically controlled behavior is behavior
maintained by consequences that are the natural
and automatic results of responding - In contrast, extrinsically controlled behavior is
behavior controlled by consequences that are
external to the task (often programmed by our
social environment) - From a behavioral perspective, no functional
difference between these types of behaviors
they are still controlled by rewards
(traditionally, int motvn has been defined by
default that is behaviors that occurs in the
apparent absence of extrinsic rewards has been
and is still said to be intrinsically
motivated. automatic pun)
44SO29 Examples of automatic reinfmt
- Painting when you paint a picture, your painting
behavior is automatically reinforced as the
picture begins to form by each brush stroke - Jigsaw puzzle when doing a puzzle, your behavior
is automatically reinforced by pieces fitting
together and by progress toward completing the
puzzle
45SO29 Examples of automatic reinfmt
- Skinner, a complex example when learning how to
write, or writing a paper, the important
reinforcers are largely automatic a sentence
comes out right, it says something interesting,
if fits another sentence. - If these automatic reinforcers are powerful
enough, the student may continue to write and
improve his writing even though he receives few
if any comments - Money, grades, and honors must be husbanded
carefully, but the automatic reinforcement of
being right and moving forward are
inexhaustible.
(Holland Skinner, 1961, page 160 Skinner,
Technology of teaching, 1968, p. 158 learning to
read Harry Potter books thick, long books
The hunger games)
46SO30 Innate vs. innate or learned
- Traditional accounts generally assume that
intrinsic motivation is innate - Thus, signs of self-determination (autonomy),
competence (mastery), and control over the
environment function as unconditioned reinforcers - Behavioral interpretation makes no such
assumption Intrinsic reinforcers, like extrinsic
reinforcers, may be unconditioned or conditioned
reinforcers, or generalized conditioned
reinforcers
(this is Pinks position for autonomy, mastery,
purpose his motivation 3.0 exception, Lepper
Greene who talk about intrinsic interest, not
intrinsic motivation and maintain that interest
in a task might be learned)
47Innate or learned, cont. but this slide NFE
- For example, Skinner stated (SHB, 1953)
- Behaviors that occur in the absence obvious
rewards may be maintained by control over the
environment, and that control may function as
either generalized conditioned or generalized
unconditioned reinforcement - Instrinsic reinforcers could also be a simple
form conditioned reinforcement in which stimuli
associated the task have been correlated with
approval, praise, or some other form of
reinforcement - VB when a child is learning to talk, sounds
that mimic the parent or adult are automatically
reinforcing show that when teaching VB to
autistic children for whom that may not be true
(if you want more detail, you can read my quote
in the paper babys rattle rattle might be
unconditioned rft evolutionary history of
making the world behave mn pt intrinsic
motivation Is innate vs. a behavioral position in
which intrinsic consequences can be unconditioned
or learned )
48SO31 Irreversibility of intrinsic motivation and
interest?
- Explanations by Deci Lepper maintain that once
intrinsic motivation is lost it may never be
regained - That position assumes that the cognitive and
motivational processes responsible for its
weakening are not reversible - That is, this position appears to indicate that
once intrinsic motivation or intrinsic interest
is lost/damage, it can never be regained it can
be damaged or destroyed but not restored - If rewards are removed and the individual engages
in the formerly intrinsically-motivated task
(lets say painting or even reading), intrinsic
motivation or intrinsic interest will not be
regained - That asymmetry seems odd to me Are the cognitive
and motivational processes associated with the
loss of intrinsic motivation and interest so
powerful and overwhelming, they wont reverse?
49SO32AB Type of rewards that does appear to
result in post-reward decrmts.
- Task contingent when rewards are provided for
simply engaging in a task, irrespective of
quality or quantity - This is of no great social import because
rewards are rarely showered on people regardless
of how they behave - Banudra, 1987
50SO33 Type of rewards that do not result in
decrements
- Success-contingent rewards when individuals
receive rewards for success performing well - Success-contingent rewards sustain or increase
intrinsically controlled behavior - This effect is robust and consistent
- This is recognized by even strong opponents of
performance-contingent rewards yet they still
argue against the use of any type of contingent
rewards (i.e., Deci Ryan, Kohn) - This has always seemed strange to me
(Pink seems to argue a little more specifically,
against if-then rewards rewards after the fact
are OK in some cases)
51SO34 Deci and my reply to Deci
- Deci
- Rewards that are appropriately linked to
performance, representing positive feedback in an
informational context, ought not to be
detrimental. The cost to the system, however, in
signifying good performance through the use of
performance-contingent rewards is that many
people end up receiving the message that they are
not doing very well and this is likely to be
amotivating
(my reply next)
52SO34 My reply to Deci
- Dickinson
- If, under performance-contingent reward systems,
many people end up receiving the message that
they are not doing very well..the fault lies not
in the contingent rewards, but with the
performance standards upon which the rewards are
based - I should have added or the reward system is a
competitive system that divides employees into
winners and losers -
-
53SO35 What critical difference in nonbehavioral
and behavioral studies could account for
different results?
- Nonbehavioral researchers have reported
post-reward decreases most behavioral
researchers have not and in the few cases where
decreases occurred they only lasted 1-2 sessions
post-reward - Most nonbehavioral researchers have purposely
used nonreinforcing rewards, while behavioral
researchers have used only reinforcing rewards - Williams (1980) demonstrated that unattractive
rewards decreased performance, attractive
rewards did not, however, attractiveness based
on survey data
(next slide research design, will help you
understand. why? Did not want results to be
confounded by task exposure, boredom, etc.
Reinforcers less likely to generate feelings of
begin controlled and less countercontrol than
nonreinforcing rewards )
54To understand SO35 Basic research paradigm (nfe)
- Pre-reward baseline session/phase during which
task performance is measured - Reward session/phase during which rewards are
provided for task performance - Post-reward session/phase during which rewards
are not provided (return to baseline) - If task performance is lower than initial
baseline, the conclusion is that the rewards have
damaged intrinsic motivation/interest
Why is the post-reward session/phase considered
the key phase and determination of whether
rewards have decreased intrinsic
motivation? During the second phase, when
rewards are being provided, you cant tell the
extent to which task performance is being
controlled by intrinsic rewards and extrinsic
rewards.
55SO36 NFE, Banduras quote
- Social commentators who decry the use of
extrinsic incentives rarely foreswear such
rewards for themselves when it comes to salary
increases, book royalties, and performance fees,
for fear the currency of the realm will sap their
interest. Valued rewards are accepted as though
innocuous to oneself but harmful to others
(thus, as I ended the article, this whole area
is)
56Much ado about nothing!!
(last slide no sos over the other article very
curious to know whether any of you have
encountered this objection to rewards in an
applied setting)
57