When Reward Is Punishment: How Health Care Support Personnel View Supervisor Actions.

Abstract

The present effort investigated the reward or punishment value that Navy enlisted health care support personnel placed upon a number of supervisor behaviors. Behaviors viewed as either most rewarding or most punishing seemed to possess the following characteristics: (a) public display, (b) visible implications about the individual's worth to the organization, and (c) visible implication about the person's commitment to the organization. Some behaviors, especially those reflecting job enlargement, were viewed as reward by some respondents but punishment by others. General principles concerning the use of punishment and reward in organizations are reviewed. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 30, 1981
Accession Number
ADA112519

Entities

People

  • Allan P. Jones
  • Linda Dutton
  • Mark C. Butler

Organizations

  • Naval Health Research Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biomedical Research
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Job Satisfaction
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Motivation
  • Motor Skills
  • New York
  • Personality
  • Personnel Management
  • Pins
  • Ratings
  • Standards
  • Supervisors

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Organizational Psychology.