Try as we might to avoid it, we often resort to using negative consequences (also known as punishment) when we’re trying to motivate our team. We do it because we can usually get short-term r… ...

Punishment often has the immediate effect of correcting poor employee habits, but also the long-term effects on the employee's behavior typically outweighs the short-term benefit.

In employment law, they speak about a termination or firing as being the “capital punishment” of employment relations. This may sound dramatic — unless you have been fired. And, truth ...

Negative Repercussions of Punishment in the Workplace. Effective leaders reframe punishment as consequences - an opportunity to instruct and encourage new behaviors.

That’s just what happened with the CDC’s recent anthrax and bird flu exposure, a serious example of a safety breakdown in the workplace.The lab didn’t use approved sterilization techniques ...

Performance punishment is embedded into many workplace cultures, and it can be difficult for individual managers to break the mold. But unless you want to be left with a team of underdeveloped, ...

If you’re rewarding the top performers on your team with more work and responsibility, you may be driving them right out the door. This is what’s known as “performance punishment,” and it ...