{"id":148,"date":"2026-07-10T15:23:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/excen.gsu.edu\/cnoussair\/?p=148"},"modified":"2026-07-10T16:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:11:15","slug":"bonuses-for-reaching-goals-can-be-counterproductive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/excen.gsu.edu\/cnoussair\/bonuses-for-reaching-goals-can-be-counterproductive\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonuses for reaching goals can be counterproductive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In May 2026 I appeared on The Last Show podcast with David Cooper. David and I discussed the idea presented in the study \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0167268126000260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bonuses and Loss Aversion<\/a>\u201d, with Victor Gonzalez Jimenez and Patricio Dalton that paying an employee a bonus for reaching a goal can result in worse performance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/handing-out-bonuses-lowers-performance-at-work\/id1168275879?i=1000766312047\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/excen.gsu.edu\/cnoussair\/docs\/DavidCooper.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/excen.gsu.edu\/cnoussair\/docs\/DavidCooper.webp 300w, https:\/\/excen.gsu.edu\/cnoussair\/docs\/DavidCooper-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/handing-out-bonuses-lowers-performance-at-work\/id1168275879?i=1000766312047\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Last Show with David Cooper.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2026 I appeared on The Last Show podcast with David Cooper. David and I discussed the idea presented in the study \u201cBonuses and Loss Aversion\u201d, with Victor Gonzalez Jimenez and Patricio Dalton that paying an employee a bonus for reaching a goal can result in worse performance. The Last Show with David Cooper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/excen.gsu.edu\/cnoussair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/excen.gsu.edu\/cnoussair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/excen.gsu.edu\/cnoussair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excen.gsu.edu\/cnoussair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excen.gsu.edu\/cnoussair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/excen.gsu.edu\/cnoussair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/excen.gsu.edu\/cnoussair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excen.gsu.edu\/cnoussair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/excen.gsu.edu\/cnoussair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excen.gsu.edu\/cnoussair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excen.gsu.edu\/cnoussair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}