> On 7 Dec 98 at 14:07, David Miron wrote:
>
> > Robert Bacal wrote (in response to the first paragraph below):
>
> > Frankly, I ain't all that keen on supposedly legitimate academics
> > that water down research and make it "easy"..."
> >
> > I am puzzled. Are you (Robert) making these comments having read
> > Kohn? Are you making comments based on the idea that he has made
> > some of his writing "accessible"? I was under the impression that he
> > has done a tremendous amount of research as the basis for his
> > writing. What's up?
>
> David, the experimental research on the effects of rewards and
> reinforcement on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation has been around
> for, literally, decades. It's just that it hasn't been popularized
> before in a format that is more accessible to people with little or
> no understanding of psychology.
Was the book on preventing conflict in the workplace written for the small
market of academics versed in the empirically-grounded research from
organizational or social psychology, or was and effort made to try to popularize
the manuscript into the language of a larger market of managers in the workplace
with essentially little or no understanding of the empirical research I can only
assume underlies the conclusions drawn?
Just curious about the process before I can accept casting aspersions and
blanket generalizations at the glass houses of other authors.
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