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: Stark County Law Library Blawg"Want to Motivate Your Associates? Don't Use Bonuses Based on Billed Hours"
: "In a few weeks, one of the partner groups I am coaching will be discussing motivation: Partners, Associates and legal assistants. I want to share my thoughts and what I have read about motivation....
Studies show that rewards like our bonus system are actually de-motivators. Take a look at How Rewards Can Backfire and Reduce Motivation. You will see that the reward reduces intrinsic motivation. It makes law practice more of a factory piece work compensation system. That is not what motivated your best lawyers to go to law school.
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Source: Law Consulting Blog, 19 April 2010. © 2010, Cordell Parvin LLC. Reproduced with permission of the author.
Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on April 19, 2010 (boomark / email).
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