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Author: Shen Wanfeng (Compiler)
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Features: Traditionally, more methods were used in management through punishment to motivate employees to work harder and more effectively. With the development of society and the advancement of management, especially the rise of human-centered management, the method of punishment has gradually given up its mainstream position and become a relatively less emphasized "negative motivation" in management motivation theory. Various management literature has reduced the discussion on punishment, treating it as a supplementary part of various positive incentives. Meanwhile, management practitioners and learners are more inclined to pursue the "carrot" approach for employees, deliberately neglecting the "stick" method. However, in practice, the method of punishment has never left the historical stage and has not been ignored in practice due to human-centered management. The reason punishment is not widely praised is partly because previous management emphasized punishment over rewards; on the other hand, punishment is literally at odds with the trend of human-centered management, and people are willing to emphasize it in practice but reluctant to discuss it openly. Precisely because of this reality, we believe that in modern management, it is even more important to summarize and study the methods of punishment in the era of human-centered management, so that punishment does not become "underground behavior"—punishment actions are taken, but not pursued for rationality and effectiveness. In modern enterprise management, both rewards and punishments are means to motivate employees, but many enterprisesly understand motivation, believing that as long as employees are rewarded, they can fully mobilize their enthusiasm and initiative, making them love their company and be dutiful in their work. However, rewards do not always achieve the expected results, and one-sided rewards have many drawbacks. Rewards cannot be equated with employees' values. The purpose of rewards is to elicit a specific behavior from employees, so this reward must be sufficiently attractive to them, and only then can it become a driving force. However, many enterprises often subjectively judge employees' work standards when formulating corporate reward plans and do not make detailed distinctions in employees' personal values, so the reward plan often becomes a one-size-fits-all approach—a single standard applies to all employees. The reason why corporate rewards do not interest employees is that everyone's values are not the same. Rewarding a certain department or individual may be a punishment for others. A certain company, due to good performance, decided to give a bonus to the marketing department. This news was learned by employees in the production department, who thought: "Good, all the credit goes to the marketing department. We work overtime and still don't get rewarded, so why should we still work so hard?" As a result, in the second month, the company's product defect rate, scrap rate, and rework rate all rose significantly, costs increased, and efficiency definitely declined. Is this the purpose of the company's rewards? Rewards—competition—conflict. Complicate team relationships. Interest is a driving force that encourages people to adopt certain behavioral patterns, so the distribution and redistribution of interests can make team relationships more complex. A sales department manager, in order to create a competitive environment within the department, decided to implement a competitive management model, rewarding the salesperson with the highest sales each month with extra incentives. However, when the top salesperson had difficulties seeking help from others in the team, many people avoided it with various excuses. When customers called the rewarded salesperson, they might not relay the message, leading to the company's loss of customers. They might even steal other employees' customer data or even slander the company's salesperson in front of customers. Thus, rewards created competition, and competition then evolved into conflict. Rewards encourage and reinforce past successful patterns while losing innovation. Those who receive rewards are often successful, and successful experiences can encourage and reinforce past successful patterns while losing the ability to innovate. The carrot-and-stick policy uses the stick to punish wrong behavior and the carrot to reward correct behavior. Just as the stick punishment principle only motivates people to avoid the stick, rewards can make people become experience-driven, forming a mindset inertia that leads to a loss of innovative motivation. Rewards can make people resort to means. Human nature is evil, and interest can make people resort to means. Rewards are a form of motivation, but rewards are not necessarily the "best" form of motivation. From another perspective, punishment is the "best" form of motivation, and necessary punishment can play a role that rewards cannot. Punishment takes many forms, from minor criticism and warnings to severe measures like imprisonment or even deprivation of life. This book primarily discusses the scientific punishment for violating corporate regulations, such as criticism, warnings, serious warnings, demerits, severe demerits, demotion, dismissal, probation, and termination. As for offenses against the law, they are handled by judicial authorities according to the law and are not the topic of this book.