Productivity and Rewards
The passage conveys the benefits of rewarding behavior in the workplace to motivate the employees and increase productivity. The lecturer mentions several points in disagreement to the ideas presented in the passage. He says that people do not like such productivity schemes based on distributing rewards. He argues that people like to be paid, instead of being handed incentives. They want respect for the work that they do. Another important point the lecturer mentions is that there have hardly been any conclusive studies to prove that reward based schemes work to increase the productivity of employees. He mentions that in fact, studies were conducted that proved otherwise. These studies found that rewards actually lowered the productivity of the employees instead of improving them. These reward based schemes to motivate people to work harder were actually counter-productive in the workplace.
He explains that people understand manipulation techniques, they know when they are being manipulated for working harder. People do not like to be manipulated by their companies for producing more work. Also, it is not guaranteed that they will always get their rewards. People who do not get rewards are disappointed, which feels like a punishment to them. Some employees may have invested themselves to work harder for the rewards. However, the higher the reward and their expectations, the more the disappointment they will have to suffer when they are not able to achieve it. This will lower their motivation and hamper productivity, completely overthrowing the purpose of establishing the reward scheme in the workplace.
Also, this could hinder collaborative efforts in the workplace, as employees may begin to conceal their problems from their supervisor to avoid negative ratings. They may feel that telling their supervisor about their problems in work may lead to the supervisor withholding their rewards.
In conclusion, the lecturer mentions several key points that show how rewards may not always increase productivity, and how they might even lower the productivity of employees in the workplace.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, may, so, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 22.412803532 192% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1801.0 1373.03311258 131% => OK
No of words: 328.0 270.72406181 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.49085365854 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9912980451 2.5805825403 116% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.469512195122 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 541.8 419.366225166 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 3.25607064018 369% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.9111894973 49.2860985944 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.7894736842 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2631578947 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.21052631579 7.06452816374 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 4.33554083885 254% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.239775915696 0.272083759551 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.087315855237 0.0996497079465 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106465490658 0.0662205650399 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153608162091 0.162205337803 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.115404710251 0.0443174109184 260% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 53.8541721854 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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