
MSK’s Lost Carrots & Sticks
Rewards for quality, consequences for a lack of. It’s not a big ask, is it?!
Yet to my eye we have neither and it risks stagnating the MSK industry. In any healthy environment the incentives are well balanced. An excess of rewards, especially for those undeserving when it comes to effort and ability, creates a cringeworthy, self-important and sycophantic atmosphere [1]. The technical literature in this direction names it ‘Distributive Injustice’. As a deeply untechnical person I’m going with ‘too many carrots’. Disproportionate consequences decrease healthy risk taking, innovation and…
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