Leadership

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Does giving workers a pay rise lead to greater productivity?

Andrea Isoni, Professor of Behavioural Science, joins Core Insights host Trevor Barnes to discuss the conundrum of pay rises.

Professor Isoni has used game theory to examine how pay rises are actually reciprocated by employees. For many bosses giving workers a pay rise is seen as an act of kindness that they expect to be reciprocated by more effort.

But Professor Isoni details the scenarios that show this is rarely the case. Read more on it all here.

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