Originally Posted by
m0o
Education. Without an education this thread is going to be a bunch of 14 yearolds telling us what they think industries should be doing.
Very true, I knew quite a bit of what you posted but definitely not all of it. Not exactly the easiest stuff to completely understand through a post on a forums infested, with as you said, 14yr olds who think they know it all(well, sometimes anyways, its a phase of sorts) These experiments were done primarily by economists rather than psychologists, so their results are related primarily to their field.
Also, these results cannot easily be applied to MANY industries simply because of the fact that many industries have no need for innovation. For example, accountants. There isn't much to innovate in that field, therefore applying what they learned would make no sense besides keeping their employees happy, and possibly increasing their work ethic because of it.
And I believe this is kind of related to Mazlow's Hierarchy of Needs in the sense that enough money to not worry about money is required. Next he talks about fulfilling their "psychological needs" when he talks about mastery, purpose, and autonomy. He simply is showing how those needs must ALSO be met in a workplace to maximize the results. The rest just comes off of the workers having the base to build off of.
Do I fully understand this? no. Do I enjoy theorizing about it? very much so.