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August 19, 2016

A New PFP Approach: Behavioral & Neurological

Broc Romanek

In this brief paper, Dr. Stephanie Thomas examines the behavioral and neurological connections between pay & performance as she cites a new experiment that indicates a decrease in performance when a monetary reward is removed – but no change in performance when a monetary reward is introduced, suggesting that the effect of performance-based pay is not so straightforward…